Caption transcript for “Your Letters and a Preview of Josiah”

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:07 ♪♪♪ David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today
• 00:08 for "Our Jewish Roots."
• 00:10 Normally we bring you series, biblical series, every week, but
• 00:14 one of our favorite programs, I would say, is letters from our
• 00:18 viewers like you.
• 00:20 We've got some good ones.
• 00:21 Are you guys ready for today?
• 00:23 Caleb Colson: I think I'm ready.
• 00:24 Do we have, like, a warm up question to get ready?
• 00:26 Joshua Colson: Give me an easy one.
• 00:27 David: Yeah.
• 00:29 You'd be good at test taking.
• 00:30 You've got a good one.
• 00:31 Kirsten Hart: But here's the thing, this is a program about
• 00:33 biblical prophecy and there are about 5 million different views
• 00:37 because everyone has their own interpretation.
• 00:40 So we, what we believe as a program, is what you guys
• 00:44 believe and people have questions about that.
• 00:47 Joshua: And we wanna answer those, too, because we don't
• 00:48 ever want to just talk, talk, talk and not listen.
• 00:51 So, if we're presenting something in a way and it brings
• 00:54 up more questions, we wanna be able to answer those questions
• 00:56 so that there is clarity.
• 00:57 Kirsten: And I think that's how people learn, too.
• 00:59 Ask a question, get an answer.
• 01:01 You ready?
• 01:03 School.
• 01:04 Joshua: Let's see what these guys have to offer us.
• 01:07 Kirsten: First of all, I just want you to know that we
• 01:08 love you.
• 01:10 Okay, before we start that.
• 01:11 Okay, first question is, actually, a statement, I think.
• 01:14 "I am not American."
• 01:16 So this is not me, I did not write this.
• 01:18 "I'm not American.
• 01:19 I am English and female.
• 01:21 Why do you keep calling your listeners Guys?
• 01:24 Perhaps you might rephrase in light of the evil ways the enemy
• 01:28 raises this issue in the kindergartens of these
• 01:31 last days?"
• 01:32 There's the hefty part.
• 01:34 Okay.
• 01:36 Caleb: Yeah, that's kind of a loaded question.
• 01:37 Kirsten: It's a lot.
• 01:38 Caleb: "Guys," yes.
• 01:40 We have mentioned guys a lot.
• 01:41 Okay, in America "guys" is a gender-neutral term and we're
• 01:44 kind of--we're from New York.
• 01:46 We grew up, and we always used to say "youse guys"
• 01:48 for everything.
• 01:49 You know that, we have accent, we got rid of that accent.
• 01:51 Joshua: We came here and we had to learn how to say "y'all."
• 01:53 Caleb: That's right.
• 01:54 Joshua: Which is even more specific, but I think the habit
• 01:57 of saying "guys" is just a colloquialism that kind of falls
• 02:00 out, but we definitely don't want to, in any way, make it
• 02:03 seem like we're isolating anybody or only specifically
• 02:06 speaking to men.
• 02:09 Caleb: We understand the cultural difference of
• 02:11 different people.
• 02:12 My wife is European and I understand, you know,
• 02:14 the misperceptions.
• 02:16 We wanna make sure we speak clearly to everyone and they
• 02:19 understand us.
• 02:20 So, we're gonna work on it.
• 02:22 It's gonna take us a while.
• 02:23 We're gonna--"ladies and gentlemen," that's kind of long.
• 02:25 We'll figure something out, but we'll work on it.
• 02:27 David: I have a way to fix that.
• 02:28 We'll have a jar right here.
• 02:29 Every time you say, "guys," you put a dollar in the jar.
• 02:34 Kirsten: The Guys Jar, okay.
• 02:36 David: I had somebody approach me the other day, talking about
• 02:39 the red heifer program, how interesting it was to them.
• 02:42 So, it's still really interesting what's going on
• 02:45 with that.
• 02:46 Here's a question.
• 02:48 Are you ready?
• 02:49 "Are the sacrifices of the heifers going to catapult us
• 02:50 into the Tribulation?"
• 02:53 Caleb: I just saw a question this morning and someone was
• 02:56 commenting that all the red heifer nonsense that's going on
• 03:00 social media is just bonkers, quote, "bonkers."
• 03:03 And it is because there's so much misinformation about the
• 03:05 red heifers.
• 03:07 I would say, this is very specific, that the ashes of a
• 03:11 red heifer will not begin the Tribulation.
• 03:13 It's as easy as that.
• 03:15 What begins the Tribulation is a peace treaty that is ratified
• 03:18 with the beast, representing the nations and Israel.
• 03:23 And so, that even begins the construction of the
• 03:26 Third Temple.
• 03:27 So, we can't have one without the other.
• 03:29 Now, I see these as prophetic signs, you know.
• 03:31 I mean--.
• 03:33 Joshua: They're definitely signs, but if you want to be
• 03:34 uber technical about it, they could get the ashes of the red
• 03:37 heifer, hide them, not tell anybody that they did it, put it
• 03:40 in the secret vault, and that's not gonna start everything.
• 03:43 You know what I'm saying?
• 03:44 So that they could technically--.
• 03:45 Kirsten: But wouldn't they have to burn it on that huge altar?
• 03:47 Joshua: Right, but if somehow--I'm saying if somehow
• 03:48 they pulled it off in secret, they didn't tell anybody, there
• 03:51 was no outcry from it happening, it didn't mean that just
• 03:54 sacrificing them--.
• 03:55 Kirsten: Alone.
• 03:57 Joshua: Alone is what made it happen.
• 03:58 It's what they do with those ashes, what happens next, and
• 03:59 like you said, the coalition.
• 04:01 Caleb: Well, look at the Temple Institute today.
• 04:02 They've recreated the articles of the temple.
• 04:04 They have the golden menorah, they have the golden altar, they
• 04:07 have the showbread table.
• 04:09 Kirsten: Incense.
• 04:10 We've done a program on that.
• 04:11 Caleb: Incense.
• 04:13 They have the priests vestments and all the articles.
• 04:14 So, they've already have everything prepared, but they're
• 04:16 missing the ashes for the consecration, for the purifying
• 04:19 of the priesthood to begin the construction of the temple.
• 04:22 So it is necessary, it's a necessary component, but--
• 04:25 Kirsten: It's not the one that's gonna--in
• 04:28 Caleb: There's other rabbis that say you need all the ashes of
• 04:30 the previous red heifer in the Qalal.
• 04:32 When we met with those rabbis from the Temple Institute, we
• 04:35 asked, "Is it necessary to have the original Qalal?"
• 04:38 "Oh, no, no, it's okay."
• 04:39 There's been a lot of cutting of corners, I believe, in making
• 04:43 these kosher, you know.
• 04:45 I think even if the cows are not kosher, as long as the Jews
• 04:48 believe they're kosher, they're gonna sacrifice it, they're
• 04:51 gonna have the ashes.
• 04:53 It doesn't matter one way or the other in the long run because
• 04:55 this temple is not necessary in a sense that you're not gonna
• 04:59 have the fire come down from heaven like Solomon did when he
• 05:02 consecrated the temple.
• 05:03 The shekinah, the presence of God, will not return to the
• 05:06 Third Temple, but the Jews have to believe it.
• 05:09 They have to believe this is God's temple and begin
• 05:12 the sacrifices.
• 05:13 Kirsten: That's a whole different--
• 05:14 Caleb: It goes way deep crazy, but yeah.
• 05:17 Kirsten: Okay, so--well, speaking about that, about Third
• 05:19 Temple, someone said, "I've heard it taught that the
• 05:23 anti-christ doesn't need a third temple to declare his
• 05:26 reign from.
• 05:28 He can do that from the great synagogue in Jerusalem."
• 05:31 Caleb: Why don't you ask Satan about that?
• 05:33 Hey, you've waited to sit on the mercy seat--
• 05:37 your whole life.
• 05:39 You're gonna settle for--I don't think he's gonna wanna settle.
• 05:40 Kirsten: There's so many schools of thought.
• 05:42 I mean, especially, boy, this third time, is it hot.
• 05:45 Joshua: This is the coup de grâce for him, right?
• 05:47 This is the final slap in the face to the God of Abraham,
• 05:51 Isaac, and Jacob.
• 05:52 He's now sitting on the most holy seat that makes him God.
• 05:56 I don't know why he'd want to settle for sitting in the
• 05:58 backyard and waving.
• 05:59 "Hey, I'm still here," you know.
• 06:01 I just--it doesn't seem in his nature.
• 06:02 Caleb: But scripturally, scripturally, we have that
• 06:05 moment in Daniel 9:27 where it says, you know, he will make
• 06:08 that covenant, and in the middle of the covenant he will break
• 06:10 it, he will commit the abomination of desolation.
• 06:12 Yes, that was partly fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes IV, but
• 06:17 Yeshua says in Matthew 24:15, "When you see the 'abomination
• 06:21 of desolation,' spoken by the prophet Daniel, standing in the
• 06:24 holy place," the holy place, not the great synagogue, "then let
• 06:28 the readers know and understand, flee of the wilderness."
• 06:31 Because this is gonna begin the time of Jacob's trouble.
• 06:34 Kirsten: That'll catapult it.
• 06:35 Caleb: That will catapult it.
• 06:37 Kirsten: Right, that's the catapult.
• 06:38 Caleb: So yeah, the beast, I think he's gonna go for the
• 06:41 whole nine yards because it's scriptural and he knows he's
• 06:43 gonna fulfill the Word of God in that way.
• 06:45 Kirsten: Okay.
• 06:47 David: So the question is, that many are asking today, is, when
• 06:49 will the sacrifice happen with the heifer?
• 06:51 Joshua: Okay.
• 06:53 Tuesday.
• 06:54 David: Oh.
• 06:56 Joshua: No, not Tuesday.
• 06:57 David: I knew you would know.
• 06:58 Kirsten: Thank you for coming to our program.
• 07:00 Caleb: First of all, to clarify, it's not really a sacrifice.
• 07:01 The rabbis from the Temple Institute said this is more of
• 07:04 a ceremony.
• 07:05 This isn't a sacrifice.
• 07:06 They need the ashes.
• 07:08 The ashes are for purifying.
• 07:09 It has to be mixed with with hyssop, you know, and the water
• 07:12 from the Gihon, you know.
• 07:14 It's just meant to purify because of, you know, touching
• 07:16 of dead bodies throughout history and they need the
• 07:18 articles consecrated to use in the temple, stuff like that.
• 07:21 But when is that ceremony gonna take place?
• 07:24 Everybody's been asking us.
• 07:25 Originally, a rabbi said it was gonna be Passover 2024.
• 07:29 By the time this airs, it will be past that moment, and they
• 07:32 could have already done the sacrifice, we don't know, but
• 07:36 they changed their mind for very many reasons.
• 07:38 There was--the head of Hamas declared that one of the reasons
• 07:42 that they went to war against Israel was because they brought
• 07:46 the heifers in and that was, you know, they were gonna try to
• 07:49 destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque and all this.
• 07:51 No, we found documentation that they had this planned for over a
• 07:55 year, so that was not the case.
• 07:57 But the government of Israel is very concerned right now and
• 08:00 they have tried to--
• 08:01 Kirsten: For safety.
• 08:03 Caleb: For safety's sake, that they don't want to start World
• 08:04 War III.
• 08:06 Joshua: Because we've talked about in our last series.
• 08:07 It has to take place on the Mount of Olives and there's
• 08:11 squatters there at the moment.
• 08:12 Caleb: Yeah, through the eastern gate, in alignment with
• 08:14 the temple.
• 08:16 Joshua: So for it to happen, there's gonna be somebody mad.
• 08:17 Caleb: There's gonna be somebody mad, but they have a timetable
• 08:19 that's ticking down.
• 08:20 When we were at the process of the selection of the heifer's,
• 08:22 that was in December 2021.
• 08:25 They were 6 months old.
• 08:26 They have to be sacrificed within the three year, you know,
• 08:30 period, so, you know, the clock is ticking.
• 08:33 They're gonna have to do it sooner rather than later, so.
• 08:36 Kirsten: Whoo, that's a lot.
• 08:37 Okay, so people think a lot about what you guys say.
• 08:44 Joshua: That's good, that's positive, yeah.
• 08:46 Kirsten: That's good.
• 08:47 Some people think a lot, a lot about what you say, so here's
• 08:50 a doozy.
• 08:51 This is a lot in this question, so it's layered and it's
• 08:54 weighted and all of that.
• 08:55 "When you say," and they're talking to you, "'Jewish Roots'
• 08:58 make sure you specify the written words of Moses and the
• 09:02 prophets as 'Jewish Roots.'
• 09:05 The rabbis today have mixed the occult, Kabbalah, Talmud with
• 09:10 the real Old Testament that Christians follow.
• 09:14 The Jewish rabbis teach Talmud," Talmud, right?
• 09:17 Am I saying it right?
• 09:19 "Over the Old Testament.
• 09:20 In the Talmud they say Jesus is in hell boiling in His own body
• 09:25 waste," never knew that, "The Judaism today, isn't the same as
• 09:29 the old Judaism.
• 09:31 They've changed to the ancient mysteries they picked up in
• 09:34 Babylon, and brought it back."
• 09:37 That could take a whole series.
• 09:38 That's a whole series.
• 09:40 Joshua: But you didn't call it "Tal-mud," so that's good.
• 09:41 Kirsten: Thank you, thank you.
• 09:43 Caleb: He's not wrong.
• 09:44 He's absolutely not wrong, he or she, who wrote that.
• 09:48 The Jews today are consumed and elevate the rabbinical
• 09:52 interpretation of Torah, which is Talmud, Mishnah, all that
• 09:55 stuff together, over Torah itself.
• 09:57 It is--.
• 09:59 Joshua: Now, think about that concept, okay?
• 10:00 Who gave the Torah to Moses?
• 10:03 God.
• 10:04 So why would I listen to somebody else who's like, "Hold
• 10:07 on, I know what God really meant when he was trying to say this,
• 10:09 as opposed to God"?
• 10:11 Even, for me personally, if I don't always know the specific
• 10:13 theology behind it, I just think, like, with common sense
• 10:16 that God gave me that this doesn't even make sense.
• 10:17 We go to the source.
• 10:19 Kirsten: Can I just say one thing, though?
• 10:21 So, you guys kind of represent the Jewish roots, we are coming
• 10:24 in with the Gentile Christian roots.
• 10:25 We see it--well, you're in the church too.
• 10:27 We see it all the time.
• 10:28 People will follow this book or this author, he's this prophet,
• 10:32 and they take his word over anything that might be truth in
• 10:35 the Bible too.
• 10:37 So I'm kind of like--.
• 10:38 Joshua: That's dangerous too, though.
• 10:39 Caleb: The reason they do that is because they didn't have
• 10:42 sacrifice and offerings anymore.
• 10:43 They were scattered and so they're trying to create a new
• 10:46 way of worshiping, using traditions and stuff like that.
• 10:48 I understand that.
• 10:50 But there's some gnarly written in those books that, even dated
• 10:54 at that time, you were like, "Really?"
• 10:55 You know.
• 10:57 And so, following that word for word is dangerous,
• 10:59 to Kabbalah--
• 11:01 Very dangerous, guys.
• 11:02 This is the occult, this is dealing with palm reading, this
• 11:04 is dealing with soothsaying, and dealing with mysticism and all
• 11:07 that stuff.
• 11:08 God directs Moses many times in Levitical Law to avoid these
• 11:13 things, so why are we following after these ancient mystic
• 11:16 secrets, the deeper hidden knowledge, when God says to
• 11:19 avoid it?
• 11:20 That that's very dangerous.
• 11:22 But I think this also opens up a new can of worms because we also
• 11:25 get confused with the Hebrew Roots Movement.
• 11:27 Joshua: Hebrew Roots.
• 11:28 Caleb: Have you heard of Hebrew Roots Movement?
• 11:30 Kirsten: No.
• 11:31 Joshua: All--there's so much specificity.
• 11:33 So, it's a group of people who have decided that the law was
• 11:37 never abolished, and so they still have to follow the
• 11:40 Levitican Law, even if they're Gentiles, not just
• 11:45 Jewish people.
• 11:47 Caleb: These are believers in Yeshua who want to follow Torah
• 11:51 to the letter of the law.
• 11:52 Now, obviously, we can't perform the sacrifice and offerings and
• 11:55 all that.
• 11:56 So what do they do?
• 11:57 They mix in the law those rabbinical traditions and how
• 11:59 they follow it.
• 12:01 They say, "We gotta keep the law of kosher."
• 12:02 Where it's like, "Well, why do you do that," you know?
• 12:03 Yeshua fulfilled the law.
• 12:05 They're like, oh, if we love him, we're gonna keep the law,
• 12:06 you're not required to.
• 12:08 But then if you don't keep that law, then they kind of look down
• 12:10 upon you.
• 12:11 "Wow, you're not keeping Sabbath, you're not celebrating
• 12:12 the feast."
• 12:14 We get confused with the Hebrew Roots Movement a lot, and it's
• 12:17 not that we're bashing them in any respect, but scripturally, I
• 12:22 like to look at Acts 15, the first Jerusalem council, in
• 12:26 which there was a problem.
• 12:28 More and more Gentiles were coming to faith in Yeshua and
• 12:31 the Jews were like, "What do we do with these guys?
• 12:34 The first Christians were Jews, you know?
• 12:35 Are they supposed to get circumcised?
• 12:37 Are they gonna keep kosher?
• 12:39 Are they gonna, you know, keep the feast?"
• 12:41 And they didn't know what to do, so the first church where
• 12:44 Yeshua's apostles, his disciples, they got together,
• 12:46 they prayed, and the Holy Spirit directed them exactly what
• 12:49 to do.
• 12:50 Keep all the law.
• 12:52 No, it wasn't about keeping all those regulations.
• 12:54 It was about three things.
• 12:56 Says, abstain from sexual immorality, from blood, you
• 13:00 know, strangled food, cook it all the way through, and avoid
• 13:04 the meat sacrifice to idols.
• 13:06 "If you follow these protocols, you will do well," they said to
• 13:09 the Gentiles.
• 13:11 These are the things.
• 13:12 Now, obviously, they knew don't murder, don't do all these, you
• 13:13 know--but this was about that extra Jewishness.
• 13:17 Do they have to, you know, be extra Jewish to be followers
• 13:20 of Yeshua?
• 13:22 Joshua: Extra Jewish.
• 13:23 Kirsten: You're extra Jewish.
• 13:25 Joshua: Well, obviously, but I just haven't heard that
• 13:26 term before.
• 13:27 Kirsten: That is--but it is interesting because--and the
• 13:29 other day, on social media, we read something.
• 13:31 Someone said, "The mark of the beast isn't on the forehead.
• 13:34 It's not on the hand.
• 13:35 It is those that worship on Sunday, not on Sabbath."
• 13:40 Joshua: Ouch.
• 13:42 Kirsten: Right, but--and people, I don't know if they just so
• 13:45 wanna be right with God's law, but it's so interesting in
• 13:49 today's day and age that they're so--
• 13:51 Joshua: Here's my opinion because that's a great question.
• 13:54 My opinion is that in original sin, which is pride and looking
• 13:59 at yourself, there is a part of every human being that wants to
• 14:01 earn it so they get to regulate it, right?
• 14:03 So if I say that I earn my salvation, I can look down on
• 14:07 other people, I can hold my head high in pride because I did all
• 14:10 my sacrifices, right?
• 14:12 I can even look at God and say, "Well, hold on now.
• 14:14 I have a say because I earned this."
• 14:16 The reason that God specifically said, "No, no, no, no.
• 14:19 It's a free gift," is that eliminates the ability for any
• 14:22 person to be able to interfere, take credit, look down, or
• 14:26 do anything.
• 14:27 Because he gave it, they can't earn it.
• 14:28 Kirsten: No boasting, humble heart.
• 14:30 That's good.
• 14:32 David: All right, you ready for another one?
• 14:33 Just, somebody's disagreeing with you guys.
• 14:35 We would never.
• 14:36 Kirsten: Never, ever.
• 14:37 How dare they?
• 14:39 David: This was online, that somebody said, "I would like to
• 14:40 disagree with the Bearded Bible Brothers.
• 14:42 There's nothing we mortals can do that will alter the timeline
• 14:46 of the actions of God Almighty.
• 14:48 We cannot change the beginning of any phase of His operation no
• 14:52 matter what."
• 14:53 Caleb: I think you--
• 14:54 Kirsten: I put my questions down for that one, okay.
• 14:56 Caleb: I think he was probably referencing our call over the
• 14:59 last few years not to support the Third Temple project.
• 15:02 I know we stirred the pot on that with Christians and Jews,
• 15:05 saying, "Don't support the red heifer project.
• 15:08 Don't support the Third Temple project."
• 15:09 And that's because I believe it sends mixed signals to the
• 15:12 Jewish people.
• 15:13 We're here trying to witness to them of the gospel of Yeshua,
• 15:17 that he has come and this is the only way to heaven, yet at the
• 15:20 same time, "No, we'll support this other way for you to
• 15:22 receive redemption."
• 15:24 What kind of message is that?
• 15:25 We should be focusing on our financial resources, on sending
• 15:30 people out into the world and preaching the gospel of Yeshua.
• 15:33 Joshua: But we also talked specifically about the fact
• 15:35 that, while you cannot alter the things that God has prophesied
• 15:38 is going to happen, and specifically when we know that
• 15:41 two thirds are gonna perish of the Jewish people, what we can
• 15:45 alter is the starting number of that fraction.
• 15:47 If we go out and minister and we lead millions of Jewish people
• 15:51 in, that number can be way smaller to start.
• 15:54 So, two thirds is a lot less people that have to be
• 15:56 sacrificed and have eternal separation.
• 15:58 So we've referenced that what we're talking about when it
• 16:01 comes to changing, we're not changing God's
• 16:04 prophetic anything.
• 16:06 We're simply trying to get as many people out of the things
• 16:09 that we know that are gonna happen from happening.
• 16:11 Kirsten: Yeah, I read letters, and I think you guys get
• 16:15 that too.
• 16:16 For eight years, people are writing in and people wanna slow
• 16:19 it down, people want to speed it up.
• 16:22 It's his time.
• 16:24 Caleb: Technically, there's nothing we can do.
• 16:26 It's in his timing, but there is scriptural precedence to
• 16:30 humbling yourself, repenting, that gets God to extend the
• 16:33 timeline, per se.
• 16:35 There is Hezekiah.
• 16:36 God says, "You're gonna die now," and he humbled himself, he
• 16:39 got 15 more years.
• 16:41 The Ninevites, God said, "I'm gonna wipe you out."
• 16:42 They repented, they got 100 year extension before destruction.
• 16:46 Moses, God said, "I'm gonna wipe out all these people, and Moses
• 16:50 said, "Please, God," and God relented from the destruction he
• 16:52 was gonna do.
• 16:54 But the most important, I believe, is Josiah.
• 16:55 King Josiah humbled himself before God and God extended the
• 16:58 timetable of judgment.
• 17:00 Guys, we have an amazing series coming up that we shot in Israel
• 17:04 during the war called, "Josiah and the Last Reformation."
• 17:07 It's all about this message that we're talking about.
• 17:10 We believe judgment is coming to America and to Israel because we
• 17:13 have sinned against God.
• 17:15 But there is a way to stop that judgment.
• 17:16 I want you to take a look at these excerpts right now.
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• 17:51 Joshua: We are here at a familiar spot, if you have
• 17:53 frequented "Our Jewish Roots."
• 17:55 This is the Southern Steps.
• 17:57 Now, this angle, this perspective is the one you
• 17:59 usually see on the show.
• 18:01 And right here we have first century structures.
• 18:03 These are structures that Jesus himself, Yeshua, walked
• 18:06 the most.
• 18:08 Caleb: That's right.
• 18:09 Now, let's arc around here.
• 18:10 Change your perspective.
• 18:12 There's ruins all the way down this location.
• 18:16 Crazy ruins.
• 18:17 You know, Jerusalem is layers of layers of civilization stacked
• 18:20 on top of each other because of war, invasion, and all these
• 18:25 fire--you never know, but there's multiple layers,
• 18:28 multiple time periods.
• 18:29 When they dig away more of the dirt, you start to reveal more
• 18:32 of a history.
• 18:34 This behind us is called the Ophel.
• 18:36 It's actually from the First Temple Period, and they just
• 18:39 recently made a lot of discoveries and found very
• 18:42 important archaeological evidence in the Ophel.
• 18:46 Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews," book ten, chapter four.
• 18:49 "And when he," Josiah, "was twelve years old, he gave
• 18:51 demonstrations of his religious and righteous behavior for he
• 18:54 brought the people to a sober way of living, and extorted them
• 18:58 to leave off the opinion that they had of their idols; because
• 19:01 they were not Gods: but to worship their own God.
• 19:03 And by reflecting on the actions of his progenitors, he prudently
• 19:06 corrected what they did wrong, like a very elderly man, and
• 19:09 like one abundantly able to understand what was fit to
• 19:12 be done."
• 19:16 Caleb: You know, old man Josiah, I actually really like that.
• 19:19 God already bestowed great wisdom and knowledge on Josiah
• 19:22 at such a young age.
• 19:23 You know, he became king at the age of eight, but his hands were
• 19:27 tied to matters of the state.
• 19:28 Governor Maaseiah, Hilkiah, the high priest, and the elders of
• 19:32 -- had to take care of those matters for him.
• 19:34 But he was trained up to learn how to rule by --
• 19:38 his attendant.
• 19:39 And Josephus says that "and thus he," Josiah, "acted in following
• 19:44 the wisdom and sagacity of his own nature, and in compliance
• 19:47 with the advice and instruction of the elders."
• 19:50 Joshua: However, it wasn't until Josiah was 20 years old that he
• 19:54 was able to fully step into that mantle of ruling as king because
• 19:58 this was the legal age that Moses had laid down in the law
• 20:01 of accountability that a man was ready to do that.
• 20:03 Caleb: That's right.
• 20:04 Joshua: Don't even get me started on the legal age
• 20:06 of manhood.
• 20:07 Twenty?
• 20:09 Not even close enough.
• 20:10 Most of the people I know?
• 20:11 Thirty-seven, maybe forty-two.
• 20:13 They shouldn't be men.
• 20:14 The people I've seen in America, not men.
• 20:16 2 Chronicles 34:3, "In the eighth year of his reign, while
• 20:19 he," Josiah, "was still young, he began to seek the God of his
• 20:23 father David.
• 20:24 In his twelfth year," at age 20, "he began to purge Judah and
• 20:26 Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols."
• 20:31 ♪♪♪
• 20:42 Joshua: You know, I'm gonna tell you, it's a little different,
• 20:44 things in Israel, some things.
• 20:45 When you go to the cemetery to visit your loved ones, back home
• 20:49 you see a headstone and they're below the ground, but if you can
• 20:51 see here, all these people are buried above the ground.
• 20:56 What's going on?
• 20:57 Are they worried about flooding, brother?
• 20:59 Caleb: No, I really think it's--they pay a lot of monies
• 21:01 and they're like, "Hey, when Messiah comes, I wanna push
• 21:05 ahead in line," you know.
• 21:06 Like, indulgences you get to pay to be first in line to go to
• 21:09 heaven, get that resurrected body.
• 21:11 That's sort of the mentality here.
• 21:12 Joshua: So these are line cutters here in the --
• 21:13 Caleb: These are line cutters.
• 21:15 Joshua: They want to get to the line first because they think
• 21:16 that the Messiah will think they're a good guy at life and
• 21:19 let them to the front of the heaven line.
• 21:21 Caleb: I'm not lying.
• 21:26 Joshua: "He said to the people, 'It is too much for you to go
• 21:28 to Jerusalem.
• 21:30 Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.
• 21:34 One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
• 21:37 And this thing became a sin: the people came to worship the one
• 21:41 at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.'"
• 21:46 Joshua: So this is where it all went down.
• 21:48 A former high place for the Canaanites, Jeroboam decides
• 21:51 that he's gonna build a great place of worship atop those
• 21:54 ruins dedicated to the golden calf goddess of the
• 21:58 Egyptians, Hathor.
• 22:01 Caleb: I admit, I was a bit disappointed to find no altar or
• 22:06 golden calf at Tel Dan.
• 22:09 Now I can't go idol smashing.
• 22:13 Joshua: I don't know, brother.
• 22:14 I'm no genius.
• 22:16 I thought maybe we'd learned our lesson from Mount Sinai with the
• 22:18 golden calf, but we did not.
• 22:20 Caleb: Death and destruction happened because of that event.
• 22:22 Now here, as you can see of this mock replica of the altars,
• 22:25 where they found that Jeroboam built that brazen altar and upon
• 22:30 that platform where the golden calf was situated.
• 22:33 Now, many archaeologists consider and believe that it's
• 22:36 possible that King Josiah came here when he was cleansing
• 22:39 the land.
• 22:42 Caleb: Deuteronomy 17:18 through 20 explains that it was the
• 22:45 king's job to write his own personal copy of the Torah to
• 22:48 lead him successfully in life through following God's laws.
• 22:51 How quickly has that abandonment of God's Word led to our
• 22:54 destruction today?
• 23:00 Caleb: It's interesting that one of the things that modern man
• 23:03 always prides himself on is his advancements.
• 23:06 Each generation has something to benefit the future generation.
• 23:09 They say, "Look what we did."
• 23:11 Well, not unlike Manasseh in the past, today's generation likes
• 23:14 to pride themselves on escaping the tyrannies of absolute truth.
• 23:18 I mean, you see it with all individuals today that they have
• 23:23 a mantra that everyone wants to go by.
• 23:25 Find your own truth.
• 23:27 This is no different from Judges 21:25 that said, "There was no
• 23:31 king in Israel: and everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
• 23:35 Joshua: This idea of absolute truth being a problem is the
• 23:39 idea that--it forms a criticism and a hate.
• 23:42 That if we were to speak a truth that everyone has to adhere to,
• 23:45 then this would hurt people's feelings.
• 23:47 This has been the cause of people to be bullied and the
• 23:49 cause of people to receive hate crimes over the years.
• 23:52 The problem with this is, even though the marketing sounds
• 23:55 fantastic for find your own truth and makes you wanna lock
• 23:57 arms with everybody and sing kumbaya, who does it
• 24:01 stand against?
• 24:02 Who's the truth that you're opposing that's absolute?
• 24:04 Well, the truth is God, and the truth is his Word, and the truth
• 24:07 is Torah.
• 24:09 So when you say there is no absolute truth, what you're
• 24:11 saying is there is no absolute God, there is no Messiah that I
• 24:15 have to listen to.
• 24:17 Kirsten: Studying about King Josiah really, probably, isn't a
• 24:21 hot topic right now, but you guys would differ with that
• 24:26 thought, don't you?
• 24:27 You--this has been a passion of yours.
• 24:29 God called you.
• 24:30 Caleb: Yeah, God directed us.
• 24:31 Joshua: We really endeavor not to bring anything to the show
• 24:36 that isn't something that we feel God is saying pertinently
• 24:38 for right now.
• 24:39 And Josiah was something that God laid on our hearts for us to
• 24:43 show this reformation that he took Israel through.
• 24:47 And you asked the question why.
• 24:49 We think the question was answered while we were on
• 24:51 location filming because as we were filming this, the war
• 24:54 broke out.
• 24:55 People lost their lives, they were taken captive.
• 24:57 Literally, when I was in front of Abu Ghosh and I said, "Today,
• 25:00 there are gonna be people that lose their lives and be
• 25:04 eternally separated."
• 25:05 Over 1200 people died that day.
• 25:08 That day.
• 25:09 And we're talking about the coming that's gonna end all
• 25:11 of time.
• 25:13 We don't have any more moments in our life to waste.
• 25:17 We don't have any more time to cater to ourselves, to do what
• 25:21 we want, to say, "I'll put it off till tomorrow."
• 25:23 This message is so important today because God is calling and
• 25:26 saying, "I have extended my grace to you for so very long,
• 25:31 but I'm drawing a line in the sand and you're gonna have to
• 25:34 make a choice.
• 25:35 And as your Father, I want you to be on this side of that line,
• 25:39 but you have to repent and make that U-turn and put the sin
• 25:44 behind you and come to me."
• 25:45 And that's why I think this is such a powerful series.
• 25:47 Kirsten: For such a time as this.
• 25:49 That didn't just apply to Esther, but it applies to us
• 25:52 right now.
• 25:54 David: And I'm amazed at all the places that you were on location
• 25:56 in Israel, just really amazing.
• 25:59 First time for you.
• 26:00 Caleb: Hey, it was a blessing.
• 26:03 I've had many opportunities to go to Israel before that, but
• 26:06 because of family, I was raising my children.
• 26:08 God said, "Now is not the time."
• 26:10 When he said, "Now is the time," it was his divine timing and he
• 26:13 gave us a message and we delivered it, and y'all, guys,
• 26:16 are gonna see message very soon, starting next week.
• 26:19 Kirsten: You just said "guys."
• 26:21 We need a dollar for the jar.
• 26:22 Caleb: Dollar in the jar.
• 26:23 Sorry.
• 26:25 Joshua: Everyone, ladies and gentlemen, our close friends.
• 26:27 Caleb: But we couldn't do it without your support.
• 26:30 Kirsten: And I wanna tag on that to all of you that are watching
• 26:33 this program, the Colson brothers have so much more on
• 26:37 their heart that they feel that God is calling them to share
• 26:41 with you, with our viewer audience.
• 26:43 And more than ever we need your donations to make sure that the
• 26:48 Word continues to get out.
• 26:50 But for right now, our time is over, isn't it?
• 26:53 David: We leave you with a song from our founder, Zola Levitt.
• 26:56 The song is, "Speak to Me."
• 26:57 But before we sing, before I sing that, it's time to
• 27:00 go, guys.
• 27:02 Joshua: We leave you and ask you to sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:04 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:08 ♪ "Lord, I know that you are near. ♪
• 27:12 ♪ Lord, I know that you will hear. ♪
• 27:17 ♪ Listening closely to my needs, ♪
• 27:21 ♪ watching carefully over me. ♪
• 27:25 ♪ O Lord, I sing and dance to you with praise, ♪
• 27:29 ♪ and love and worship all my days. ♪
• 27:35 ♪ Even in my darkest down, ♪
• 27:38 ♪ I'll know your voice, ♪
• 27:40 ♪ I'll feel your power. ♪
• 27:47 ♪ Talk to me, O Lord, I need you. ♪
• 27:54 ♪ I need you." ♪
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• 28:13 ♪♪♪
• 28:22 ♪♪♪