Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “The Boy King” (2/8)

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• 00:46 Joshua Colson: Well we are here at a familiar spot.
• 00:49 If you have frequented “Our Jewish Roots,” this is the
• 00:52 Southern Steps.
• 00:53 Now, this angle, this perspective is the one you
• 00:55 usually see in the show.
• 00:56 And right here we have first century structures.
• 00:59 These are structures that Jesus himself, Yeshua, walked amongst.
• 01:02 Caleb Colson: That’s right.
• 01:04 Now let’s arc around here, change your perspective.
• 01:08 There’s ruins all the way down this location, crazy ruins.
• 01:12 You know, Jerusalem, it’s layers of layers of civilization
• 01:16 stacked on top of each other ’cause of war, invasion, and
• 01:20 all these, fire, you never know, but there’s multiple layers,
• 01:24 multiple time periods, when they dig away more of the dirt, you
• 01:27 start to reveal more of a history.
• 01:29 This behind us is called the Ophel.
• 01:31 It’s actually from the First Temple Period, and they just
• 01:35 recently made a lot of discoveries and found very
• 01:38 important archaeological evidence in the Ophel.
• 01:41 Joshua: See, the Ophel is a fortified position right here,
• 01:44 it’s a stronghold, and it was usually of significance
• 01:48 within the kingdom.
• 01:49 So you had, down here at the bottom, the fortified bakery,
• 01:53 you had the watchtower, you had the gatehouse.
• 01:56 In fact, if you go down there, you can even see some of the
• 01:59 original wall of Solomon that he built down there.
• 02:02 Caleb: And what’s interesting is, in those locations Josh was
• 02:05 just talking about, they recently discovered a
• 02:09 bulla seal.
• 02:10 A bulla seal is a clay seal.
• 02:11 You’ve heard of a signet ring of authority of the king.
• 02:14 They would stamp in the seal and verify the authority of the
• 02:17 document that they were sending to someone.
• 02:19 Well, they discovered the bulla seal of King Hezekiah, the
• 02:23 great-grandfather of Josiah.
• 02:26 And in that same location, guess who else they found?
• 02:29 The bulla seal of the prophet Isaiah.
• 02:31 Now if that doesn’t verify the authenticity of the Bible, I
• 02:35 don’t know what will.
• 02:36 [laughs]
• 02:40 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 33:21-23.
• 02:44 “Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he
• 02:47 reigned in Jerusalem two years.
• 02:49 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh
• 02:51 had done.
• 02:53 Amon worshipped and offered sacrifices to all the idols
• 02:55 Manasseh had made.
• 02:56 But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before
• 02:59 the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.”
• 03:03 Joshua: The most influential time period in a person’s life
• 03:06 is his childhood, and that’s why Satan tries so hard to affect
• 03:11 people with their kids.
• 03:13 You see, Manasseh’s son Amon grew up seeing his father commit
• 03:16 unpardonable abominations and leading the entire nation
• 03:19 into sin.
• 03:21 It’s weird because Manasseh grew up seeing his father, Hezekiah,
• 03:24 honor the Lord.
• 03:26 Caleb: And so Amon’s hero, probably his father for most
• 03:29 kids, he saw his father murder his own big brother and commit
• 03:35 these perverse, sinful acts and sorceries and magic.
• 03:39 What effect do you think that has on a child growing up and
• 03:42 seeing those sort of things and it being rationalized as
• 03:46 being good?
• 03:48 I’m sure that’s what jacked up Amon.
• 03:50 And then, you had Manasseh taken off into Babylon into captivity,
• 03:55 and he’s left there all alone.
• 03:56 By the time his father returns, he’s already gone full apostate.
• 04:01 Manasseh starts reforming the kingdom, but Amon’s heart is
• 04:04 still impure from what he saw his father do.
• 04:07 Manasseh didn’t have the Torah scrolls, he burned them, so even
• 04:11 the reformation he did toward the end of his life didn’t
• 04:14 change Amon’s heart.
• 04:16 And so we see after Manasseh’s death, Amon was full of
• 04:19 wickedness, and by the age of 23, he was assassinated by his
• 04:24 own royal officials.
• 04:26 This was the age that Josiah was eight years old.
• 04:29 Two years Amon ruled, and then Josiah becomes king.
• 04:33 Wow.
• 04:37 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 33:24-25.
• 04:40 “Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him
• 04:43 in his palace.
• 04:44 Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted
• 04:47 against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in
• 04:50 his place.”
• 04:54 Caleb: Using scripture to kind of develop timing for Amon’s
• 04:58 life, we believe he was probably married around the age of
• 05:01 puberty because we know he had his first son, Josiah, at the
• 05:05 age of 15.
• 05:07 Joshua: Oh, I know, I’ve read the Bible.
• 05:08 I know Josiah had his first kid at 15.
• 05:10 I know other people in the Bible, they had kids
• 05:11 crazy young.
• 05:12 But 15-year-olds today? Not 15-year-olds of the Bible.
• 05:15 They can barely name themselves on their nerdy internet
• 05:17 video games.
• 05:18 “I’m shahrazar87_6.”
• 05:21 Underscore is not a part of a name.
• 05:22 Sorry, you fail.
• 05:24 Caleb: So let that sink in for a minute.
• 05:25 A 15-year-old with a kid.
• 05:27 He’s in his rebellious teenage years,
• 05:29 he wants to go out and have fun.
• 05:30 I don’t think he was involved in Josiah’s upbringing.
• 05:33 It could have been Josiah’s mother, his wet nurses, or, more
• 05:36 probably, what I believe: Manasseh.
• 05:39 Joshua: We can see proof that it’s probably Manasseh’s reform,
• 05:43 because by the age of eight, Josiah had already inclined his
• 05:46 ear to God, and we definitely know that didn’t come from his
• 05:49 wayward father.
• 05:50 Caleb: So this was in the later years of Manasseh’s life when he
• 05:52 turned to God.
• 05:54 That’s probably what affected Josiah’s heart.
• 06:00 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 34:1-2.
• 06:03 “Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned
• 06:06 in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
• 06:08 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed
• 06:11 the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right
• 06:15 or to the left.”
• 06:17 Caleb: When Josiah first came to power, the hearts of the people
• 06:21 were split, as well as their mentality of who God really was.
• 06:26 Though the temple still stood upon that mount up there, they
• 06:30 also had shrines everywhere to these pagan gods.
• 06:34 You know, Manasseh had built many of these shrines in these
• 06:38 high places, then he destroyed them near the end of his life.
• 06:42 Amon, his son, rebuilt them.
• 06:44 But even amongst all that, there were high places that King
• 06:48 Solomon had built on the hill of corruption that, even during the
• 06:51 reforms of King Hezekiah and the end of life reforms of Manasseh,
• 06:55 remained untouched.
• 06:56 We still don’t know why.
• 06:58 Joshua: Oh, I know why: ’cause people are pervs.
• 07:01 “Hey baba, we supposed to tear down the sex temple up here?”
• 07:03 “Uhh, I don’t think Josiah meant that one.
• 07:06 Definitely keep the sex temple, for now.
• 07:08 For now, you know.
• 07:09 Close it off, put some yellow tape on there.”
• 07:11 Ya perv.
• 07:12 Joshua: Josiah grew up in a time of political uncertainty, not
• 07:15 much different than the time we are in now, 70 years plus prior
• 07:20 to when Israel was completely decimated by the Assyrian army
• 07:24 and taken into captivity as the prophets had foretold.
• 07:28 Hosea 13:16 says, “Samaria is held guilty, for she has
• 07:32 rebelled against her God.
• 07:33 They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed
• 07:36 into pieces, And their women with child ripped open.”
• 07:39 Hezekiah, by God’s strong hand, barely escaped this
• 07:42 brutal attack.
• 07:44 But Manasseh?
• 07:45 He was held into captivity for years.
• 07:47 Now imagine being this tiny little nation that was
• 07:49 surrounded by people who’d been literally destroyed by the
• 07:53 greatest force that the planet had ever seen before.
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• 08:02 Caleb: In the midst of all this turmoil and strife, there are
• 08:05 many nations, including Babylon, that were struggling for
• 08:08 independence under Assyria’s iron grip.
• 08:12 And I believe Josiah had a little sense of what was to
• 08:14 come, ’cause there are still legends that were spoken about
• 08:17 of prophets from times past who gave the Word of the Lord,
• 08:21 including the prophet Isaiah, who foretold that Babylon
• 08:24 was coming.
• 08:25 Joshua: Josiah’s only sense of right and wrong had to have come
• 08:27 from Manasseh’s final teaching, but yet
• 08:29 he still didn’t have the law.
• 08:31 We had evidence of this because, well, he took two wives.
• 08:34 Caleb: All right, two wives is bad.
• 08:37 Not quite Mormon bad, but nothing compared
• 08:39 to “Solomon bad.”
• 08:41 That should get its own unit of measurement.
• 08:44 Joshua: He took his first wife after puberty at age 12,
• 08:46 Hamutal, and he took his second wife, Zebidah, after that.
• 08:50 Caleb: 1 Chronicles 3:15.
• 08:53 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second
• 08:57 son, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
• 09:03 Joshua: Now, you’re probably asking yourself: how could
• 09:05 anybody in their right mind let an eight-year-old run a kingdom
• 09:09 or do matters of the state?
• 09:10 I mean, they can barely run mathematics.
• 09:13 Here’s the deal: Jehoash was actually the youngest king of
• 09:16 Judah at age seven, so Josiah actually had years of training
• 09:21 that he went through before he was given the right to rule the
• 09:25 matters of the state, so the title was mostly ceremonial
• 09:27 at first.
• 09:28 He had advisors, so he had the elders of the Senate, he had the
• 09:31 governor of Jerusalem, he had the high priest.
• 09:33 Caleb: That’s true.
• 09:35 His inner circle helped raise him and attend
• 09:37 to matters of state.
• 09:39 We know Achbor was his right-hand man and also trained
• 09:42 him in the ways of God.
• 09:43 Hilkiah, the high priest.
• 09:46 Messiah–Maaseiah, who was the governor of a region.
• 09:50 Even Shaphan, the royal secretary, took part in these
• 09:53 day-to-day matters of his life.
• 09:55 And we know these people were real.
• 09:58 Once again, as you see around us, we’re in these ruins, and
• 10:00 discoveries have been made in all these ruins verifying
• 10:03 these people.
• 10:05 Their sons, Hilkiah, his son Azariah, royal seal, bulla was
• 10:09 discovered for him, and even Shaphan the secretary, his son
• 10:12 Gemariah was discovered here, the bulla of his seal.
• 10:15 So this is very important, and it authenticates what the
• 10:18 Bible says.
• 10:21 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 34:3.
• 10:23 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he,
• 10:26 Josiah, began to seek the God of his father David.
• 10:33 Joshua: Josiah in Hebrew is Yoshi-yahu, meaning “Yahweh
• 10:37 supports and heals.”
• 10:38 By age 16, God had already started setting up Josiah to be
• 10:43 able to hear him, to be able to succeed, to be ready for what he
• 10:46 needed to do.
• 10:47 It was at this point that Josiah sensed something was wrong, and
• 10:51 he began to ask the questions what needed to be done.
• 10:54 What event do you think took place that led Josiah to
• 10:56 believing that something was wrong?
• 10:58 Caleb: You know, with certainty, we know Zephaniah, the prophet,
• 11:02 began to prophesy before Josiah’s reforms.
• 11:06 Now, Zephaniah had access to the royal inner circle.
• 11:09 He was royalty. He was a prince.
• 11:11 He was a great-great-grandson of King Hezekiah, Josiah being
• 11:15 the great-grandson of King Hezekiah.
• 11:18 So I find this very interesting that, you know, Josiah didn’t
• 11:21 have any other direction than these prophetic words to know
• 11:26 that he had to do something, and he had to cleanse the land.
• 11:32 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 34:3.
• 11:34 In his twelfth year he, Josiah, began to purge Judah and
• 11:38 Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles and idols.
• 11:46 Joshua: So why didn’t Josiah begin all of his reforms before
• 11:49 the age of 20?
• 11:51 Well, because legally, he couldn’t.
• 11:52 The law stated that you were not legally an adult until you’re 20
• 11:55 years old.
• 11:56 God defined this by allowing everyone under the age of 20 a
• 12:00 free pass to get into the Promised Land.
• 12:02 Now, at 13, you became a man, physically, spiritually.
• 12:05 You were bar mitzvahed.
• 12:06 But it wasn’t until 20 years old you were allowed to go to war,
• 12:09 or that you were held responsible as an adult in a
• 12:11 court of law.
• 12:12 Caleb: So you can see that Josiah was probably counting the
• 12:15 days, the hours, and moments until he was unleashed, and he
• 12:18 could go idol smashing.
• 12:19 He knew at the age of 20 he could go out in full force and
• 12:23 have full authority of kingship, and then at the age of 20, he
• 12:27 goes into reformation overdrive.
• 12:30 Caleb: Now, only if they would have had idol smashing as an
• 12:32 elective in college, then I would have had it made.
• 12:37 Caleb: It’s a miracle this fatherless boy
• 12:39 became a man of God.
• 12:40 I’m sure Satan was laying snare after snare to get him to fall
• 12:43 into sin.
• 12:45 Even today we see how the enemy tries to indoctrinate children
• 12:50 so he can have a hold of their mind when they become adults
• 12:53 and he owns them.
• 12:55 We see children at a young age already, since prayer is taken
• 12:59 out of school and the Bible, they don’t have the influence
• 13:03 they need to anymore.
• 13:04 Even in your synagogues in your churches, you’re not hearing the
• 13:08 Word of God in truth and in power.
• 13:11 And the question is, what’s gonna happen to those children?
• 13:14 How can we save their minds from the perversion of the enemy?
• 13:18 Joshua: It’s a well-documented fact in child development that
• 13:21 what happens to a child up to the age of seven is crucial in
• 13:25 their developmental process.
• 13:26 Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Give me your child until
• 13:29 he is seven, and I’ll show you the man.”
• 13:31 What we show a kid, what we expose our children to now, is
• 13:35 what will shape their belief system and potentially who they
• 13:38 become in their adult years.
• 13:40 Now, in the 1950s and ’60s, the content and programming that was
• 13:44 on television was completely different than what’s on now.
• 13:48 And for some reason in America, we seem infatuated with the idea
• 13:51 of robbing the innocence of youth.
• 13:53 The statement I hear all this time is, “It’s not that bad,” as
• 13:56 opposed to saying, “Oh, we shouldn’t show them this,
• 13:58 there’s no good in it.”
• 14:00 Now, before you get all mad at me, and say, “Josh, I don’t show
• 14:03 my kids bad stuff,” that’s fine, I understand that, I do.
• 14:07 I know that you as believers would never show your children
• 14:09 any programming that has magic, sex, profanity, fantasy.
• 14:16 Caleb: Violence.
• 14:17 Joshua: Violence, superheroes. No!
• 14:19 He never–well, I guess that does account for just about all
• 14:22 the programming today.
• 14:23 But trust me, the enemy is a chess player, and he’s
• 14:26 actually not super concerned with you exposing them to
• 14:28 bad things.
• 14:30 He’s just fine with you letting him be.
• 14:32 How about this?
• 14:34 Your kid comes up and says, “Hey, Dad, can we play?”
• 14:38 “Not right now, honey, I’ve got–you know what, I gotta
• 14:40 work right now, but as soon as I’m done.
• 14:42 Why don’t you go over and watch something on TV?”
• 14:45 You say, “I’m not an absent parent, I’m here.”
• 14:48 But you’re here in peripheral.
• 14:49 You can see your kid out of the left, you can see your kid out
• 14:51 of the right, but you haven’t made the time for it.
• 14:54 Caleb: I know you may be upset about this.
• 14:55 You say, “I have to work, I have to make a living, I’m providing
• 14:58 for my family.”
• 15:00 You got to realize you have such a short window of time right now
• 15:04 to educate your children, to take part in their life.
• 15:07 It’s–when a child looks back at their life, they look at the
• 15:10 quantity, the amount of time you spent
• 15:12 with them, not the quality.
• 15:13 They’re not like, “Oh, there was that one moment Dad was with
• 15:15 me,” or “No, Dad was always there.
• 15:17 I could always have that time with him.”
• 15:19 Caleb: And in Psalm 127:3, “Behold, children are a heritage
• 15:24 from the Lord, the fruit of a womb is a reward.”
• 15:28 Joshua: Guys, your children just weren’t a gift from God, but
• 15:31 they were a responsibility.
• 15:33 This is something I think about often.
• 15:35 A gift is something that you use at your leisure, that you play
• 15:38 with, that you put on a shelf, but a responsibility is
• 15:40 something that comes with a requirement, and that means that
• 15:43 whatever happens in your children’s life, the buck stops
• 15:46 with you.
• 15:47 It’s not the responsibility of your school to raise
• 15:49 your children.
• 15:50 It’s not the responsibility of your church or your synagogue to
• 15:52 raise your children.
• 15:54 The responsibility in the education and the upbringing of
• 15:57 both the understanding and the fear and the wisdom of the Lord
• 16:01 and anything that your children have, comes from you.
• 16:05 I understand that we all live busy lives, that we have jobs
• 16:08 and responsibilities, that we have to put food on the table,
• 16:10 and that takes work and that takes money.
• 16:12 But then if that’s the case and the only obstacle standing in
• 16:16 your way of you being there for your children when they need you
• 16:19 in those pivotal moments, it’s time to ask the Holy Spirit this
• 16:22 question: “Holy Spirit, since I’ve been given this
• 16:24 responsibility and this is truly what the Father wants, show me
• 16:27 how to maximize my time.
• 16:29 Give me different opportunities.
• 16:30 If this job is taking me from my children, give me a job where I
• 16:32 can be with them.”
• 16:33 Don’t just mark it off as, “This is the way I take care of my
• 16:37 children, is money alone,” because when that becomes the
• 16:40 sole focus, then you have a world driven by Satan very much
• 16:44 ready to raise your children up in his ways instead of the ways
• 16:49 of the Father.
• 16:50 We may not all turn out to be like Manasseh.
• 16:52 I hope you don’t.
• 16:53 I hope that your kids have a much better upbringing, even if
• 16:56 you’re not able to be there, but you are not allowed at any point
• 17:00 to sit there and say, “My hands are tied, it wasn’t my fault.”
• 17:04 It is your responsibility.
• 17:06 Today is the day you can change.
• 17:08 Today’s the day you can be better.
• 17:09 It’s not a time to give up, it’s a time to raise up and be the
• 17:13 example that your children need.
• 17:19 Joshua: [singing in Hebrew]
• 17:29 Caleb: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 17:33 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
• 17:37 with all your soul, and with all your strength.
• 17:41 Caleb: Guys, today we have the opportunity to hear from Dr.
• 17:45 Todd Baker of B’rit-Hadashah Ministries.
• 17:47 Todd has been a friend of Zola Levitt Ministries for decades,
• 17:51 all the way back to the Zola Levitt years.
• 17:53 He actually started the Tuvya Jew First Mission Fund, which he
• 17:57 and other people go to Israel and actually evangelize to the
• 18:00 Jewish people, it’s absolutely amazing.
• 18:02 Joshua: It’s amazing because today he’s talking about how
• 18:05 different, after October 7, the people in Israel are in their
• 18:08 reception to the gospel.
• 18:10 You really want to hear about what’s happening right now.
• 18:13 Dr. Todd Baker: With God, it’s not numbers.
• 18:15 With God, it’s people who will repent and turn to him for
• 18:19 salvation, because he’s not willing that any should perish.
• 18:22 And–but we’re, like you said, we’re living in a
• 18:25 day and time which certainly is equivalent to ancient Israel in
• 18:29 their immorality and idolatry, and of course the answer then is
• 18:34 the answer now: repent and believe the gospel.
• 18:37 And it sounds simple, but that’s the true remedy.
• 18:40 Caleb: But why do people not want to repent?
• 18:42 I mean, just kind of down to the basics.
• 18:44 Is it a pride issue?
• 18:46 Is it fear?
• 18:47 Is it ’cause they don’t want to change?
• 18:49 Dr. Todd Baker: I think it’s all of the above and then some.
• 18:51 I think people like being their own god.
• 18:53 They like being their own,
• 18:56 you know, rulers and leaders in their lives.
• 18:58 They don’t want to take a subordinate position to another.
• 19:04 But then again, you know, God is perfect, he knows what’s
• 19:08 perfectly good for us.
• 19:09 So, we’re the creatures, he’s the Creator, we need to follow
• 19:13 what the Creator prescribes for us to have a life that is filled
• 19:20 with a vibrant, giving relationship to the Lord, and in
• 19:25 return, he gives us so much more than we could ever imagine:
• 19:29 eternal life with him, a destiny of priests and kings with him in
• 19:34 the future.
• 19:35 And if people–no sane people would reject the free gift of
• 19:40 salvation, but sin is a form of insanity, it warps the mind,
• 19:44 it prejudices the attitude, and until they’re given a clear
• 19:50 presentation of the gospel and the Holy Spirit convicting them,
• 19:55 there’s gonna continue to be this, unfortunately, increasing
• 19:59 apostasy in the church and in the nation at large, if that
• 20:02 makes sense.
• 20:04 Caleb: Yeah, apostasy is prevalent.
• 20:05 I believe Yeshua, when he spoke to John in Revelation 2 and 3,
• 20:09 that was a warning just as much for those churches back then
• 20:12 as for churches today.
• 20:13 You can see every single characteristic that Yeshua
• 20:16 rebuked in those churches in our modern churches today.
• 20:20 It’s alive and well and nothing has changed.
• 20:23 But that is that sign, as much as Yeshua said back then, “I’m
• 20:27 coming quickly.”
• 20:28 I believe he’s coming quickly today, and even sooner than he
• 20:31 was back then, that we could be living in that last moment
• 20:35 before his return.
• 20:37 Why not repent now?
• 20:38 Why not draw close to him now?
• 20:40 This could be your last chance!
• 20:42 Dr. Todd Baker: Right, right.
• 20:44 And fortunately, throughout the church, the history of the
• 20:48 church, it’s similar to the days of Elijah,
• 20:50 there is a redeemed remnant in the midst of this great
• 20:54 massive apostasy.
• 20:56 And we do know during the tribulation period there will be
• 21:00 a global revival caused by the 144,000 Jewish evangelists and
• 21:07 the tribulation saints, and there can be revival now if we
• 21:12 follow God’s prescription given in the Word for true revival,
• 21:16 and it begins with– and we–I know
• 21:19 I sound like a broken record.
• 21:21 It begins with repentance, acknowledging, “God,
• 21:24 I’ve broken your law.
• 21:26 I’ve violated it, I’m a guilty sinner, forgive me, heal me,
• 21:31 restore me.”
• 21:33 And for the unbeliever, it’s the same, but with the addition of
• 21:38 “Save me,” and with a backslidden Christian, it would
• 21:42 be, “Restore me.”
• 21:44 And repentance is–it’s not a one-time thing.
• 21:48 We should constantly be living a life of repentance, ’cause, as
• 21:51 James said, in many things we offend all, and if you’re
• 21:56 constantly aware of your shortcomings, not that you focus
• 22:02 on that, become introspective, it causes you to focus on the
• 22:06 cross even more, the place where forgiveness and reconciliation
• 22:09 and restoration is found.
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• 23:10 Mike Ferland: In this episode, we talk about, you know, broken
• 23:13 homes, really, and today we experience that.
• 23:16 Like, over 25% of homes today are without fathers in it, and
• 23:22 it has a serious impact on that–on our society.
• 23:26 Ninety percent of homeless runaway children come from a
• 23:31 fatherless home.
• 23:33 Eighty-five percent of children with mental health issues,
• 23:36 fatherless home.
• 23:37 Seventy-one percent of all high school dropouts come from a
• 23:40 fatherless home.
• 23:42 And youth suicides?
• 23:43 They’re four times more likely to commit suicide if they don’t
• 23:46 have a father in their house.
• 23:48 That’s what we’re dealing with today.
• 23:50 Ryan Economy: Yeah, I work with a lot of kids in different
• 23:53 after-school programs or summer camps, and some of the things
• 23:56 I’ll see with like a kid that’s growing up with a single parent
• 24:00 is that the single parent might have a lot of stresses and a lot
• 24:02 of pressure on them, and then that kind of reflects onto the
• 24:06 kid, and then that kid’s behavior reflects
• 24:08 in–with our program.
• 24:09 And sometimes I’ll see with the kids is that their motivations
• 24:13 are from the entertainment field, like what they see on
• 24:16 social media, who are their role models on movies or things like
• 24:21 that, and some of the role models aren’t always exampling
• 24:23 themselves the most appropriately or sharing some of
• 24:28 the most leadership qualities or things of that nature.
• 24:32 So they don’t have a good frame to start with when they interact
• 24:36 with their friends, because they’re thinking, “Oh,
• 24:38 disrespect is cool, or making fun of others is cool,” where
• 24:42 the discipline is not as much there.
• 24:45 Joshua: You look at the 1800s, 1700s, any of those time periods
• 24:48 before us, and kids had a lot of things to worry about.
• 24:51 If you’ve ever played Oregon Trail–if you haven’t, you
• 24:53 should–you realize that at any time they could die of
• 24:55 dysentery, a wagon wheel breaking, an attack from a
• 24:59 stampede of bison.
• 25:00 But, yeah, there’s a lot of things.
• 25:01 Everything back then, you had a life or death situation attached
• 25:04 to it, and you would think that that would cause more stress,
• 25:06 but statistically, when you look at the stress levels of kids
• 25:09 today, they’re hundreds of perfect higher, even to the fact
• 25:12 that kids today are facing the stress of a level that would
• 25:14 have put a kid back then in an insane asylum.
• 25:17 You say, why is that?
• 25:18 They have all the comforts, all the technologies, all the
• 25:20 wonderful things of 2026, but what they have actually is a
• 25:23 glimpse into a created persona of what men and women should
• 25:26 be today.
• 25:28 With social media being the effervescent moniker of who you
• 25:31 need to be, everything in their life is a comparison.
• 25:34 Everything they see is that somebody’s better, smarter,
• 25:36 prettier, richer, has more attention from the opposite sex,
• 25:40 and that pressure of having to be better than somebody else,
• 25:44 when there’s always somebody “better,” is literally throwing
• 25:47 our kids into a heightened state of stress like the world’s never
• 25:49 seen before.
• 25:50 Caleb: But there is hope, guys. There really is hope.
• 25:52 We’ve already seen some important milestones in America
• 25:55 such as the overturning of Roe versus Wade, and even here in
• 25:59 Texas, we’re now allowed to teach the Ten Commandments
• 26:01 in school.
• 26:03 I even saw the Ten Commandments placed outside the Tarrant
• 26:05 County Courthouse.
• 26:07 So they’re little baby steps, but there is hope to turn
• 26:10 back to God, and we see that Josiah, when he was just 16
• 26:14 years old, without a good father figure, Amon was a terrible
• 26:17 father to him, he still decided to seek the God of his fathers,
• 26:22 his forefathers, and as seeking, in Hebrew it’s “lidrosh,” it’s
• 26:26 like striving, it’s like running toward, so passionate was his
• 26:30 desire to seek God without even knowing why that he ended up
• 26:34 changing a nation.
• 26:35 We’re going to get to that point later, but this series is so
• 26:38 important because right now in America we are barreling toward
• 26:42 destruction, but there’s still time for us to turn our hearts
• 26:46 back to God, and there’s still time to do what is right.
• 26:50 And we want to remind you that, as you go, to sha’alu
• 26:54 shalom Yerushalayim.
• 26:56 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:01 male announcer: Our resources this week: two books by
• 27:04 Christian historian David Barton.
• 27:07 First, “America’s Godly Heritage.”
• 27:09 This book details what the Founding Fathers intended for
• 27:12 America and what can be done to return to its original
• 27:15 guiding philosophy.
• 27:17 Or, “The Bulletproof George Washington,” in this riveting
• 27:20 account of God’s providence and protection of the young soldier
• 27:23 who later became our first president.
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