
The New Gate
The New Gate, as its name implies, is the most recent gate and gives access to the Christian Quarter of the Old City. It provides a picture of God’s heart for unity. Guests include David Parsons, with the ICEJ; and fiery supporter of Israel Jan Willem van der Hoeven, director of the International Christian Zionist Center.
Air dates: 2014-Oct-26, 2016-Mar-06
Production Code: 1425
Episode 4 of 8 in the series “Jerusalem: Ancient Gates, Future Glory”
Duration: 28:30
Year: 2014
Series code: DJG
 Closed Captioned
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Caption transcript for Jerusalem: Ancient Gates, Future Glory — “The New Gate” (4/8)
- 00:01 In the city of the great king, the modest New Gate opens into
 - 00:05 the Christian Quarter.
 - 00:07 It's only adornment, a nearby Star of David.
 - 00:10 Coming up we'll find out why.
 - 00:13 ♪ ♪ ♪
 - 00:23 ♪ My heart was glad ♪ ♪ when they said to me ♪
 - 00:29 ♪ Let us go up ♪
 - 00:32 ♪ Let us go up ♪ ♪ to the gates of Jerusalem ♪
 - 00:38 ♪ Our feet will stand ♪ ♪ in the House of the Lord ♪
 - 00:44 ♪ Yes, let us go up ♪
 - 00:46 ♪ Let us go up ♪ ♪ to the gates of Jerusalem ♪
 - 00:54 ♪ The gates of Jerusalem ♪
 - 01:02 Shalom and welcome to our program. I'm Myles Weiss.
 - 01:04 And I'm Katharine Weiss and we want to welcome you
 - 01:07 to our program Ancient Gates and Future Glory.
 - 01:10 In Jerusalem we're bringing you around the city of our Lord to show you His gates.
 - 01:16 There's such a story that is told by the gates.
 - 01:18 Each one that we go through tells a different aspect of
 - 01:21 the Lord, a different aspect of history, the present conflict
 - 01:24 and the future that's coming that is prophetic in nature.
 - 01:27 This land speaks, doesn't it?
 - 01:29 It really does and that's why we love to bring people there.
 - 01:31 I love our new set. We're bringing Jerusalem into your homes.
 - 01:33 It's really great for us to be here.
 - 01:36 Our guest today, David Parsons.
 - 01:38 One of our favorite interviewees.
 - 01:39 He's from the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
 - 01:42 When the embassies of the world determined not to move their embassy's from Tel Aviv to
 - 01:48 Jerusalem the Christians of the world said - We will go to Jerusalem because it is the
 - 01:53 ancient capital of the Jewish people.
 - 01:55 Then we also have Jan Willem van der Hoeven.
 - 01:58 He was raised up by Corrie ten Boom and has
 - 02:01 the same passion for seeing the Jewish people saved, safe, and
 - 02:05 coming to faith.
 - 02:06 Yes, and it's beautiful because you see the friendship between
 - 02:09 the Jews and the Christians.
 - 02:10 The Jewish people have said that the Christians are our only
 - 02:13 friends because they're aligning themselves with the book, with
 - 02:17 the bible, a lot like Corrie ten Boom's father said
 - 02:20 to Corrie. Of course we're going to stand with the Jewish people
 - 02:23 in the face of their persecution and in the face of this onslaught from Hitler because
 - 02:28 they're the people of the book. They're the people of the bible.
 - 02:31 When you stand with them you're standing with God.
 - 02:33 Exactly so. As a Jewish person it is so powerful and so comforting for
 - 02:40 me to know that there are believers around the world
 - 02:43 that are awakening and are beginning to stand with the Jews
 - 02:45 It's a miracle.
 - 02:47 So we're calling you to be a friend with Israel.
 - 02:50 So join us now as we go to the New Gate.
 - 03:07 We're at the Old City of Jerusalem standing near
 - 03:09 the New Gate. This is the Sha'ar Ha'Chadash and it is
 - 03:13 the gate that was the most recently rebuild at the end of the 19th century.
 - 03:18 It is our joy to bring you these gates.
 - 03:21 This is the Old City behind us.
 - 03:23 The Christian Quarter is behind us.
 - 03:25 Surrounding the Old City is the modern city of Jerusalem.
 - 03:28 When you think about Jerusalem, it is the desire of all nations
 - 03:32 scripture says and the only way to understand this city or this nation is to understand it
 - 03:37 through scripture. You can't understand it through your mind
 - 03:40 or through politics or even what the news is saying, but you have
 - 03:43 to rest in and rely on what the Word of God says.
 - 03:46 That is exactly the truth.
 - 03:47 How can you ever, anyone, any of us understand what's going on in
 - 03:51 the world, especially in this part of the world except through
 - 03:53 the lens of the bible, the Holy Word of God.
 - 03:56 Being near the Christian Quarter is especially significant for us
 - 03:59 on this television program because we want to bring a
 - 04:03 message to the Christian world about the restoration that God
 - 04:07 want to bring to the Christian world right now.
 - 04:09 Part of that has to do with our understanding of prophecy, the
 - 04:13 end-times and the role of Israel vis-a-vis the church.
 - 04:16 God in this time is restoring and He has restored and it is
 - 04:20 amazing what He is doing even in the Feast of Tabernacles that is here.
 - 04:23 Once a year Christians are coming from all around the world
 - 04:26 to say we stand with the scriptures, we stand with God,
 - 04:29 and therefore we're standing with the Jewish people to see
 - 04:32 them fully restored never again to be plucked up out of this land.
 - 04:36 I like to call it the gospel according to Zechariah.
 - 04:39 In chapters 12, 13, and 14 Zechariah tells us about the
 - 04:43 return of the Lord, the coming of the Messiah and also it says
 - 04:46 that there's coming a day when all the nations will come up to
 - 04:49 keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
 - 04:51 Christians are beginning to do that.
 - 04:53 There's going to be such a revolution in the hearts of
 - 04:56 Christians around the world, those who are believers that
 - 04:59 those that remain, those that are here, those that are part
 - 05:02 of the millennial kingdom will come up once a year to celebrate
 - 05:05 tabernacles with the Jewish people.
 - 05:08 I know you want to be in on that.
 - 05:10 Absolutely, so when you're here behind us remember to pray for
 - 05:13 all the Christians around the world that they would have God's
 - 05:17 eye and not man's eye about Jerusalem.
 - 05:20 Amen
 - 05:24 We hope you're enjoying our series
 - 05:26 Jerusalem- Ancient Gates Future Glory
 - 05:29 As we present the historical and spiritual significance of each
 - 05:33 gate surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem.
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 - 06:23 Thank you.
 - 06:27 Standing outside the New Gate, Sha'ar Ha'Chadash it's so
 - 06:30 significant at this time in the age in which we are living
 - 06:33 because the New Gate is the closest to the Christian Qtr.
 - 06:37 Think historically about how difficult it's been for
 - 06:40 the church to be in unity with the purposes of God and the
 - 06:44 purposes of the hour. Right now even if you were to go inside,
 - 06:47 come on a trip with us, come as a pilgrim you'll see that where
 - 06:51 the Greek Orthodox and the Catholic churches are living
 - 06:54 side by side. They're actually fighting over the status quo.
 - 06:58 What is called these issues the way they are.
 - 07:01 They actually have to leave these boundaries the way they
 - 07:04 were in the 19th century. They argue over that.
 - 07:07 It's a real picture for us of the desire on the heart of God
 - 07:10 to bring unity to the church.
 - 07:13 I wonder what is going to bring that unity?
 - 07:15 Right now there is a divide over the importance of Israel.
 - 07:18 The relative place of Israel vis a vis the church.
 - 07:21 I think that it may be THE issue that divides sheep and goats at some point.
 - 07:27 It may be THE issue that is the turning point for churches around the world.
 - 07:32 I think about the admonishment, the exhortation in Deuteronomy 6
 - 07:37 [speaking Hebrew]
 - 07:41 That ye shall put this sign upon your house, upon your gates.
 - 07:44 We're to live within the gates of the Lord just as with the story of Ruth.
 - 07:48 The elders sat in the gates.
 - 07:50 The gates symbolize authority and responsibility.
 - 07:54 We're to live in such a way that we bring the purposes of God
 - 07:57 to the forefront in our sphere of influence.
 - 08:00 I want to encourage you as you're hearing this message
 - 08:03 to remember 1 Corinthians 1 where Paul exhorted and
 - 08:08 admonished regarding divisions.
 - 08:10 He said very clearly that we need to be in unity with the
 - 08:12 Spirit of the Lord.
 - 08:14 Remember Psalm 133 tells us
 - 08:16 [speaking Hebrew]
 - 08:20 Behold how good and how pleasant it is when the brethren dwells together in unity.
 - 08:24 I think a unifying factor is going to be our love for Israel
 - 08:28 and the Jewish people and our willingness to provoke them to jealousy.
 - 08:33 I know you want to join me in that.
 - 08:36 It's like a reflection of what is in John 17 where Yeshua spoke
 - 08:39 about unity and He said that we would be known by our love
 - 08:43 and the unity that people saw within us for one another.
 - 08:47 Think about the scriptures, the prophetic scriptures that call
 - 08:50 for the return of the Jewish people.
 - 08:52 Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 31, Amos 9.
 - 08:56 Those scriptures are so significant for the Christian
 - 08:59 church right now because we need to understand that it's up to us
 - 09:02 to stand with the rebuilding and the restoration of Zion because
 - 09:07 Yeshua is returning to a Jewish Jerusalem.
 - 09:12 He's returning as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
 - 09:14 So I want to encourage you in your sphere of influence, where
 - 09:18 you sit in your gates as an authority by God in your place,
 - 09:22 in your church, to humbly but accurately encourage those
 - 09:26 around you to come to understand the reality of standing with
 - 09:31 Israel at this time.
 - 09:32 Will you do that with me?
 - 09:34 I know you will.
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 - 10:41 That's really true. This gate, going through
 - 10:43 the New Gate really reminds me that this new thing that God is
 - 10:48 doing is ancient but new in terms of knitting together the
 - 10:52 people of the book as you said and bringing together Jews and
 - 10:55 Gentiles together in Messiah.
 - 10:57 Jews and Christians - it makes me understand why the scripture
 - 11:00 says in Psalm 100...
 - 11:02 [speaking Hebrew]
 - 11:04 We enter His gates with thanksgiving.
 - 11:07 The nations are going to come up to worship the Lord in the end times, in the millennial times.
 - 11:13 We're seeing a taste of that now especially through the
 - 11:17 International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
 - 11:20 David Parsons, their media director, has told us and is
 - 11:23 about to tell us on the interview the incredible growth
 - 11:26 in the nations coming up and joining them to celebrate Sukkot
 - 11:30 the Feast of Tabernacles every fall.
 - 11:32 It's really a phenomenon.
 - 11:34 So let's go to my interview now with David Parsons.
 - 11:39 Well the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem was founded
 - 11:42 under unusual circumstances that gave birth to our unusually long
 - 11:48 name. We were founded in the summer of 1980 when under the
 - 11:53 threat of an Arab oil embargo.
 - 11:56 The last 13 nations that had their embassies in Jerusalem
 - 11:59 were forced out and moved down to Tel Aviv to join the American
 - 12:04 the Canadian, the British, and other embassies down in Tel Aviv
 - 12:08 And there came a moment where not one nation in the world was
 - 12:12 willing to stand with the 3,000 year old Jewish claim and
 - 12:16 connection to this city.
 - 12:18 About 1,000 Christians from 40 countries were gathering in
 - 12:23 Jerusalem right as the last diplomats were leaving in order
 - 12:28 to mark the biblical Feast of Tabernacles.
 - 12:31 Of Sukkot, which is of the three great pilgrimage feasts the
 - 12:34 Jewish people were given under Moses.
 - 12:37 This is the one where the Gentiles are also invited to
 - 12:40 come up and celebrate.
 - 12:42 The Christians gathered here for this celebration.
 - 12:46 They got it. They understood that the Jews have had an attachment.
 - 12:51 God attached the Jewish people to this city long before the
 - 12:54 rise of Christianity or Islam.
 - 12:57 They are the true custodians of this city.
 - 13:00 It needs to be shared as a House of Prayer for all people.
 - 13:03 They are the proper builders of Jerusalem and custodians of it.
 - 13:07 We understood this. These Christians wanted to leave
 - 13:10 behind a permanent representation in Jerusalem
 - 13:14 of a growing Christian world view, biblical world view which
 - 13:22 says Israel is still important to God and the restoration of
 - 13:26 Israel has great biblical significance.
 - 13:29 So the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem was
 - 13:31 established in September of 1980 to represent Christians from all
 - 13:35 over the world who have a love and concern for Israel and the
 - 13:39 Jewish people and particularly want to stand as an act of
 - 13:42 solidarity within their claim to Jerusalem.
 - 13:45 It's an emotional thing for me listening to you because I wish
 - 13:49 my grandmother was alive to see this, to know that the day would come
 - 13:53 when Christians would actually stand with the Jews
 - 13:56 The prophets longed for these days.
 - 13:59 Yes, to look into these things.
 - 14:01 So you've seen growth, tremendous growth over this season, yes?
 - 14:05 Yes. We started out with 40 countries represented at that first feast.
 - 14:11 We've continued sponsoring the Feast of Tabernacles celebration
 - 14:15 for Christians each fall.
 - 14:17 That quickly grew into Israel's largest tourist event.
 - 14:20 We've been getting between 5,000 and 7,000 Christians for 30 some years now.
 - 14:26 Year in and year out, even when there's trouble they still come.
 - 14:29 They're very committed.
 - 14:31 They're not just fair weather friends.
 - 14:33 Our crowds now come from up to 100 countries.
 - 14:37 We have a reach into about 140 countries around the world.
 - 14:41 We have established branches in more than 70 countries.
 - 14:45 So, yes, the ministry has grown because the movement has grown.
 - 14:49 For about 10 years our biggest groups at the feast have been
 - 14:54 coming from Brazil.
 - 14:56 One or two years our biggest groups were from Indonesia,
 - 14:59 which is also the world's largest Muslim country.
 - 15:02 Who would think more Indonesian Christians at our feast than
 - 15:05 American Christians. It just shows the growth from China.
 - 15:10 Our Chinese delegations are almost doubling every year.
 - 15:12 From Africa, if it was easier to get visas there would be
 - 15:17 thousands coming from Africa, from Latin America.
 - 15:20 This is where the revival is. This is where church growth is.
 - 15:25 What's very interesting, a lot of these people, they don't know
 - 15:29 Jews. They don't have Jewish friends or neighbors.
 - 15:31 They don't know much about the Holocaust.
 - 15:34 It's nothing against them, it's just not their history.
 - 15:37 Or Christian anti-Semitism or such. They don't have the latest
 - 15:40 "Left Behind" novels or whatever.
 - 15:43 They just have their bible, the Holy Spirit.
 - 15:46 They see it says God's not finished with Israel
 - 15:48 He still loves them. They want to come here and
 - 15:50 express their love for Israel.
 - 15:52 It's really God given.
 - 15:54 That's so awesome. It's a sovereign movement.
 - 15:58 Amen
 - 15:59 I think also you must have seen some changes in the reactions
 - 16:02 from the Jewish people here over the decades.
 - 16:05 Yes. In the early years of the embassy, 30 some years ago,
 - 16:09 some of the founders said it was still difficult to say the name
 - 16:14 of Jesus on the streets of Jerusalem or in some public
 - 16:17 meeting or in a meeting between Christians and Jews and pray in the Name of Jesus.
 - 16:21 It was very still frowned upon.
 - 16:24 A huge societal stigma.
 - 16:26 Not all of that has gone, but we have seen a lot of changes in
 - 16:31 attitude over the past 30 some years where a wider and wider
 - 16:37 acceptance of Christian support for Israel and Christian
 - 16:42 engagement with the land.
 - 16:44 One sign of this for the last 7 or 8 years, we've had an
 - 16:47 official partnership with Yad Vashem. This is the state's
 - 16:51 official museum and memorial to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
 - 16:56 It's probably the most revered institution in Israel, the most serious institution.
 - 17:01 The board of Yad Vashem, the president of Israel and the
 - 17:07 Prime Minister of Israel all approved them entering a
 - 17:09 partnership with the Christian Embassy to engage the Christian
 - 17:12 world on the universal lessons of the Holocaust and preserving
 - 17:15 the memories of these people.
 - 17:17 That's a sign there of how far we have come in so many decades.
 - 17:27 When you hear David Parsons speak about the connection
 - 17:29 that's growing between the state of Israel and the Christians,
 - 17:32 you really understand why the Star of David is right there at
 - 17:36 the New Gate. God is bringing this awareness that the New Gate
 - 17:40 which speaks about this new thing that He's doing in
 - 17:43 knitting the Christians into Israel is covered by and
 - 17:46 connected to the very symbol of Zionism and of the state of Israel - the Star of David.
 - 17:51 At the same time all the good that is going on, anti-Semitism
 - 17:56 is on the rise especially in Europe.
 - 17:59 We know it's in the Muslim world, but in Europe it has been
 - 18:02 growing and growing.
 - 18:03 Jan Willem van der Hoeven knows that first hand and speaks to it prophetically.
 - 18:08 He speaks to it and addresses it in my interview with him right now.
 - 18:14 Jan Willem, it is not as though we are without precedence.
 - 18:17 We have Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oskar Schindler, Corrie ten Boom
 - 18:21 whose legacy you a walking in.
 - 18:23 Can you tell us what your hope is for the church in the west
 - 18:27 regarding Israel at this pivotal time?
 - 18:30 Corrie ten Boom we knew very well.
 - 18:33 We were at the youth revival.
 - 18:35 My father was the private secretary to the Queen of Holland where even some of the
 - 18:39 nobility came to the Lord.
 - 18:41 She was sometimes one of the speakers.
 - 18:44 She lived very close to where my parents lived.
 - 18:47 We knew her story. We lived in Harlem before
 - 18:52 we went to the area where the Queen lived.
 - 18:55 In Harlem, of course, was her watchmaker's shop
 - 18:59 where she hid 18-19 Jews from the Nazi persecution.
 - 19:06 In the end they were betrayed by a Dutch person.
 - 19:13 I think she and some of the others that you mentioned
 - 19:19 show something to all of us.
 - 19:21 It shows us that it begins with prayer, but it doesn't end with prayer.
 - 19:26 Corrie ten Boom's room where the Jews hid
 - 19:31 was a room where for 100 years the Corrie ten Boom family even,
 - 19:36 her grandfather, prayed for the restoration of the Jewish people
 - 19:40 to the land before the state of Israel was born.
 - 19:43 So it was soaked with prayer.
 - 19:46 As I know that many Christians who I know are now listening to
 - 19:51 us have prayed for Israel, but when the crunch came
 - 19:56 and the persecution and the Jews being ripped out of their houses
 - 20:01 they felt we had to do something more than prayer.
 - 20:04 And they opened up their own... risking their own lives.
 - 20:08 She was brought to Ravensbruck concentration camp where Betsy, her sister, died.
 - 20:12 I saw yesterday still a film about the Holocaust.
 - 20:16 You cannot believe what these Jews were suffered, the humiliation.
 - 20:23 They called the road to their final execution Hebelstrasse,
 - 20:29 the Heavens Way to the concentration gas chambers.
 - 20:34 I was saying yesterday when I saw it again, It is so terrible
 - 20:39 what happened to these Jewish people.
 - 20:42 6 million, 1 1/2 million children
 - 20:44 Only a double comfort can put right what happened.
 - 20:49 And that's exactly what the bible says.
 - 20:52 That God says, Now, even through My lips to everyone that is
 - 20:57 listening - comforting, comforting.
 - 21:00 Not once comforting my people, two times because God is going
 - 21:04 to give them double back what they suffered in humiliation, death and sorrow.
 - 21:09 And He's going to do so not just outside the church, but He is
 - 21:14 saying you have to comfort them.
 - 21:17 Yes, comfort them, says the Lord, and speak tenderly
 - 21:22 to the heart of Jerusalem.
 - 21:24 We do that with the Jerusalem March and during the feasts.
 - 21:27 We say, Shalom, and the Israelis are in tears sometime to see us.
 - 21:33 To see us... Where do these Christians come from, because
 - 21:36 they are taught in their schools that Christians have been their
 - 21:40 enemies, that they have hit them with the crucifix over the head.
 - 21:43 And they had "Gott Mit Uns", "God With Us"
 - 21:46 on their belt when they shuffled them into the gas chambers.
 - 21:49 And here are the Christians.
 - 21:51 Ten out of each nation will take hold of a Jew, the sleeve of a
 - 21:58 Jew and say, We will go with you.
 - 22:01 You are to go to be the ten.
 - 22:03 I pray God will touch your heart to be a Ruth.
 - 22:08 Ruth is a symbol of the end-time church.
 - 22:12 She said when she clang to Naomi, Your God, Israel, is my God.
 - 22:18 Your people I accept as my people.
 - 22:20 As one woman came to a meeting where I preached.
 - 22:24 She had gone already with her bike and she came back.
 - 22:27 She came back to me. She said, When I came to listen
 - 22:29 I was the mother of two children. God told me to go back
 - 22:33 to you and say, After you preached, I accepted Israel as my third child.
 - 22:38 Is Israel your eschatology problem or your eschatology
 - 22:45 tablet to get high on prophecy?
 - 22:48 Or is Israel your people that you will die for?
 - 22:54 That you are willing to go the whole way?
 - 22:57 Where you go, I will go, she said.
 - 22:59 Where you die, I'm willing to die.
 - 23:01 And the bible speaks at the end-time it's the same Hebrew word.
 - 23:07 When the bible says Ruth clang to Naomi.
 - 23:11 It's the same Hebrew word when 10 out of each nation will cling
 - 23:17 to the sleeve of a Jew and say not "We will pray for you"
 - 23:22 "I will wait for the rapture."
 - 23:24 "We will go with you, and we will go the whole way."
 - 23:27 May God make you a Ruth unto Israel like Corrie ten Boom today.
 - 23:34 ♪ One thing ♪ ♪ I have asked of the Lord ♪
 - 23:39 ♪ that will I seek after ♪
 - 23:44 ♪ that I may dwell ♪ ♪ in the house of the Lord ♪
 - 23:49 ♪ all the days of my life ♪
 - 23:56 ♪ Oh to behold ♪ ♪ the beauty of the Lord ♪
 - 24:01 ♪ the beauty of the Lord ♪
 - 24:03 ♪ You're beautiful, my Lord ♪
 - 24:06 ♪ And to inquire ♪ ♪ in Your temple ♪
 - 24:12 ♪ to inquire in Your temple ♪
 - 24:16 ♪ that's my desire ♪ ♪ Oh Lord ♪
 - 24:21 ♪ My desire, Oh Lord ♪
 - 24:26 ♪ And one thing ♪ ♪ You have asked of me, Lord ♪
 - 24:30 ♪ that will I seek after ♪
 - 24:36 ♪ I will seek Your face ♪ ♪ my Lord ♪
 - 24:40 ♪ every day of my life ♪
 - 24:45 ♪ I need to behold ♪ ♪ the beauty of the Lord ♪
 - 24:50 ♪ the beauty of the Lord ♪
 - 24:53 ♪ You're beautiful ♪ ♪ my Lord ♪
 - 24:56 ♪ to be your child ♪ ♪ pure and humble ♪
 - 25:01 ♪ just a child ♪ ♪ pure and humble ♪
 - 25:05 ♪ that's my desire, oh Lord ♪
 - 25:10 ♪ all that You require ♪ ♪ my Lord ♪
 - 25:17 ♪ For one thing ♪ ♪ I have asked of You Lord ♪
 - 25:23 ♪ that will I seek after ♪
 - 25:27 ♪ that I may dwell ♪ ♪ in the house of the Lord ♪
 - 25:32 ♪ all the days of my life ♪
 - 25:40 ♪ all the days of my life ♪
 - 25:56 Marty Goetz is a wonderful psalmist.
 - 25:58 What's impacting my heart most of all is
 - 26:01 Jan Willem van der Hoeven's words to us about praying.
 - 26:04 And how Corrie ten Boom would pray night and day for the
 - 26:08 restoration of Israel.
 - 26:10 Now God is calling us as His people to comfort ye, comfort ye
 - 26:13 My people in this time.
 - 26:16 He's going to comfort them kind of like the same challenge that
 - 26:19 went out to Esther. I'm going to save them.
 - 26:21 I'm going to rescue them. But would you be part?
 - 26:24 I believe that is what God is saying today.
 - 26:26 I love that. I think that that's certainly your life message is that you've
 - 26:30 come into the kingdom for such a time as this.
 - 26:32 We've been brought to the world for this time, for this reason.
 - 26:36 So we see in the scope of this program that God is awakening
 - 26:41 this love, pushing back against the anti-Semitism, the darkness
 - 26:45 in the world, raising up those who will stand for Israel
 - 26:48 through prayer and intercession.
 - 26:50 I don't think there's a more important message in the world personally.
 - 26:53 We've given our lives to this because we believe in it.
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 - 27:06 Next week we go to one of the most exciting gates, one of the most tumultuous gates.
 - 27:11 We'll be visiting the Damascus Gate.
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