Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “Forewarnings of Destruction” (3/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪ David Hart: We're glad you've joined us today for our series, "Josiah and the Last
• 00:10 Reformation." Kirsten Hart: On today's program, we're discussing
• 00:12 warnings and consequences.
• 00:15 At this point in the story, the northern kingdom has already
• 00:18 fallen and things aren't looking so great for Judah.
• 00:21 David: The Jaffa Gate is where we're taking you right now where
• 00:24 Joshua and Caleb will be teaching.
• 00:26 Let's go there now.
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• 01:01 Caleb Colson: Judah was on a countdown to their doom and
• 01:04 destruction whether King Josiah knew it or not.
• 01:08 You know, many years prior they saw the Assyrian Empire come and
• 01:12 take the children of Israel captive.
• 01:14 Those were the ten northern tribes also called Samaria, and
• 01:18 at this moment, Judah was getting forewarnings by God
• 01:22 that judgment would come to them as well.
• 01:24 Joshua Colson: Pro tip, when God says judgment is coming,
• 01:27 you repent.
• 01:29 Joshua: Originally, we were scheduled to film this in
• 01:32 Lachish, but war broke out between Israel and the
• 01:34 Gaza Strip.
• 01:36 So, even though we wanted to show you the historical place
• 01:39 where Syrian Babylon fulfilled the prophecy, blew Lachish out
• 01:42 of the water, we've had to adapt.
• 01:45 Here we are today.
• 01:46 Caleb: So, back to the story.
• 01:47 Judgment was coming on the kingdom of Judah.
• 01:51 God always sent his prophets early in advance to give them
• 01:55 that advanced warning.
• 01:56 We're talking all the way back to the time of Moishe, Moses.
• 02:00 They heard what would happen in the future when they would turn
• 02:03 from God and follow after other gods.
• 02:05 Let's read that scripture.
• 02:06 Deuteronomy 29:26-28, "They went off and worshiped other
• 02:11 gods and bow down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had
• 02:15 not given them.
• 02:16 Therefore, the Lord's anger burned against this land so that
• 02:19 he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
• 02:22 In furious anger and in great wrath of the Lord uprooted them
• 02:25 from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is
• 02:28 written now."
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• 02:44 Caleb: The freshest pomegranate juice I've ever had.
• 02:47 It's like just if you took pomegranate and squeezed.
• 02:50 Oh, we did take a pomegranate and squeeze it.
• 02:54 Joshua: That prophecy was spot on.
• 02:56 The Israelites had future warning of their impending
• 02:59 consequences and the Lord supernaturally came in and saved
• 03:02 them on several occasions, but no matter what happened, they
• 03:05 never seemed to find consistency in their devotion to God.
• 03:08 It was always a roller coaster that was up and down.
• 03:11 The cycle went something like this.
• 03:13 Caleb: Okay, Israelites sin, get into apostasy, God sends his
• 03:16 prophets, warns in the judgment.
• 03:18 God removes his hand of protection.
• 03:20 Enemy comes, oppresses God's people, they cry out to God for
• 03:23 help, God sends a deliverer, Israelites will say, yay, they
• 03:26 worship God again, and after their death, the vicious cycle
• 03:30 starts all over again.
• 03:31 Caleb: Now, I'm not a mathematician, but you
• 03:34 guys failed.
• 03:35 Joshua: Man, that's a terrible cycle.
• 03:38 Maybe they figured it out the 15th time.
• 03:40 Caleb: Jeremiah 25:4-7, "Moreover, Adonai has sent to
• 03:45 you all of His servants the prophets, sending them early and
• 03:48 often but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear,
• 03:51 saying, 'Turn, now, everyone from his evil way.
• 03:54 Do not go after other gods to serve them, to worship them, and
• 03:57 so do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so I would
• 04:00 do you no harm.'
• 04:02 Yet you have not listened to Me, declares Adonai, so you are
• 04:05 provoking Me with the works of your hands, to your own hurt."
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• 04:24 Joshua: If you know your Bible, then you know the conclusion to
• 04:26 Israel's sin.
• 04:27 After centuries of rebellion against God, he finally removed
• 04:31 his hand of protection and the Assyrian army came in and
• 04:34 decimated them and took them all captive.
• 04:36 He finally left them to their own devices.
• 04:39 Joshua: Wait a minute, does this mean if we leave our kids to
• 04:42 their own devices Assyria will come for them, too?
• 04:45 Caleb: Yes, yes, it does.
• 04:49 Joshua: Oopsie-daisy.
• 04:50 Caleb: Man, the sister kingdom, Judah, saw with their very eyes
• 04:53 the words of the prophet fulfilled.
• 04:55 Their brethren, Israel, were hauled away in shackles to a
• 04:58 foreign land that they didn't know, and then Assyria came to
• 05:02 Judah's doorstep, wiped out tons of the Judan cities, Sennacherib
• 05:05 and his armies to siege Jerusalem, but God
• 05:10 supernaturally intervened this pompous, arrogant army when
• 05:13 they spoke against the God of Israel, wiped out the
• 05:16 Assyrian forces.
• 05:17 At that moment, Manasseh was alive and he saw with his own
• 05:22 eyes the deliverance of the Lord, yet they would not believe
• 05:24 the words of the prophets and they failed to send and apostasy
• 05:27 again, and the next word from the prophets would be of an even
• 05:30 greater enemy that would come, Babylon.
• 05:35 Joshua: Habakkuk 1:5-6, "Look at the nations and watch and be
• 05:39 utterly amazed.
• 05:40 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous
• 05:43 people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings
• 05:46 not their own.
• 05:48 He, Babylon, gathers to himself all the nations and takes
• 05:51 captive all the peoples."
• 05:53 Caleb: I'm here in the Jaffa Gate.
• 05:55 Lots of people around because half the city is closed down.
• 05:59 Rockets were raining down last night, shopping malls are
• 06:03 closed, a lot of the tourist sites are closed.
• 06:06 People are just chilling, wondering where do we go?
• 06:09 Let's just sit around, eat some food, street vendor food.
• 06:15 Caleb: That prophecy from Habakkuk was given in the early
• 06:18 years of Josiah's life, possibly even during his father's life,
• 06:22 Ammon, but it calls out Babylon by name during a time when
• 06:27 Assyria was a world dominating ruler of that known territory.
• 06:31 And I find it interesting that Babylon was a lesser known area.
• 06:36 It wasn't even a kingdom that people would think for an
• 06:38 instant would be able to rise up and become a world superpower.
• 06:42 Joshua: Yet, in God's never-ending mercy, he sent his
• 06:45 servant, the prophets, to warn us of impending things.
• 06:49 Not to sit here and say look what you've done, you're
• 06:52 horrible, to berate you, degrade you like your little
• 06:54 sister might.
• 06:56 No, he sent them so that he could inform you, you could make
• 06:59 the change and you could draw closer to him.
• 07:03 Joshua: Micah 1:16, "Shave your head in mourning, for the
• 07:06 children in whom you delight.
• 07:07 Make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will go from
• 07:10 you into exile.
• 07:12 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound
• 07:15 overgrown with thickets."
• 07:19 Joshua: Micah prophesied the doom of Jerusalem and their
• 07:24 exile long before Babylon ever showed up at their doorstep, but
• 07:27 we do know that biblically, archaeologically, historically,
• 07:30 Babylon did come and decimate Jerusalem.
• 07:33 Jeremiah 34:7, When the army of the king of Babylon was warring
• 07:37 against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that
• 07:40 were left against Lachish, against Azekah, for these alone
• 07:43 remained all the cities of Judah as fortified cities."
• 07:46 Caleb: Now, one of the many reasons we originally wanted to
• 07:49 go to Lachish, bombs are raining down again, we're reminding you
• 07:53 so we can't go over there right now, is because there was this
• 07:56 discovery move there many years ago on that tell.
• 07:59 Archaeological discovery was called the Lachish letters.
• 08:03 There were 18 pottery shards that had ancient Hebrew writings
• 08:07 on them.
• 08:08 They call them ostracon, and this verifies the story of
• 08:11 the Bible.
• 08:13 Joshua: Take that, even your kitchen pots are on God's side.
• 08:18 Caleb: During a time when Nebuchadnezzar was besieging
• 08:21 Jerusalem, he was also besieging Lachish and Azekah and he had
• 08:27 them cornered, and so they had to have a secret form
• 08:29 of writing.
• 08:31 They wrote on these ostracon pots and sent messages back
• 08:33 and forth.
• 08:35 So, I want to read one of these messages because it backs up
• 08:37 that Bible story.
• 08:38 It's called ostracon number three.
• 08:40 It was written in 609 B.C.
• 08:42 and it mentions the prophet Jeremiah and the prophet Uriah.
• 08:45 It says, "The commander of the army, Coniah, son of Elnatan,
• 08:49 has gone down to go to Egypt.
• 08:51 And as for the letter of Tobiah, the servant of the king, which
• 08:54 came to Shallum, son of Yada from the prophet,
• 08:57 saying, 'Beware!
• 08:59 Your servant has sent it to my lord.'"
• 09:02 This is backing up a scripture passage in Jeremiah 26:20-23, an
• 09:07 interesting story where there is this rogue prophet Uriah who
• 09:10 says you guys gotta surrender, and the king at that time,
• 09:15 Jehoiakim, tries to hunt him down and he sends Elnatan, which
• 09:19 is the son of Akbar, who is Josiah's trusted attendant, to
• 09:23 go hunt him down.
• 09:24 He goes all the way to Egypt to kill him.
• 09:25 When he mentions the prophet by name, he's talking about
• 09:28 Jeremiah the prophet, verifying the Bible over and over again,
• 09:31 these ostracon.
• 09:32 You read about the prophet warns, the prophet warns, this
• 09:34 verifies the Bible that indeed what the Bible says is accurate
• 09:38 according to Babylon's invasion and God's warnings
• 09:41 against Judah.
• 09:43 Caleb: Zephania 1:4-6, "I will stretch out My hand against
• 09:47 Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• 09:50 I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names
• 09:53 of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests.
• 09:56 Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those
• 09:59 who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by
• 10:03 Milcom; those who have turned back from following the Lord,
• 10:06 and have not sought the Lord nor inquired of Him."
• 10:10 Caleb: This was a prophecy that probably shook Josiah to his
• 10:13 very core, spoken by the prophet Zephaniah before his reforms
• 10:17 began and before Jeremiah would come on the scene, because the
• 10:21 detail that all these gods and goddesses and these high places
• 10:25 that the Judaeans were currently worshiping were false.
• 10:29 They were demons, and these idols were bringing about their
• 10:32 own doom and destruction.
• 10:33 Joshua: You know, there's evil spirits behind every false idol.
• 10:36 They just love the attention.
• 10:38 Caleb: You said it, not me.
• 10:40 Joshua: I am not an evil spirit, come on.
• 10:45 Joshua: Nimrod worked with Satan to form the world's very first
• 10:47 religions, the worship of the heavens, even fallen angels, but
• 10:51 God punished them by scattering the people.
• 10:54 You see, Israel had made a covenant with God to be his
• 10:57 bride, so you can understand how a jealous God wouldn't want to
• 11:01 share his spouse with demons.
• 11:03 I know I wouldn't.
• 11:04 Joshua: Jeremiah 3:6-11, "During the reign of King Josiah, the
• 11:09 Lord said to me, 'Have you seen what faithless Israel has done?
• 11:12 She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading
• 11:15 tree and has committed adultery there.
• 11:18 I thought that after she had
• 11:19 done all this she would return
• 11:20 to me but she did not, and her
• 11:22 unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
• 11:24 I gave faithless Israel her
• 11:25 certificate of divorce
• 11:27 and sent her away because
• 11:28 of all of her adulteries.
• 11:30 Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear.
• 11:33 She also went out and committed adultery, because Israel's
• 11:36 immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and
• 11:40 committed adultery with stone and wood.
• 11:42 The Lord said to me, 'Faithless Israel is more righteous than
• 11:45 unfaithful Judah.'"
• 11:47 Caleb: Come on, the siren's going off, you know what we have
• 11:50 to do.
• 11:52 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
• 11:53 Caleb: No, no, no, we gotta go in the bunker.
• 11:55 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
• 11:57 Caleb: Alright, fine, finish your shawarma.
• 11:58 Joshua: Thank you.
• 12:00 Caleb: I think the Iron Dome got 'em.
• 12:02 Yeah, God bless the Iron Dome and the USA for helping to
• 12:05 provide the Iron Dome, now we can eat.
• 12:12 Caleb: The Lord does nothing without speaking through his
• 12:14 servants the prophets, so the question is not has God spoken
• 12:17 through Israel or the nations and America of this coming
• 12:20 judgment, the question is why haven't we paid attention to the
• 12:23 warning signs?
• 12:24 We have allowed blinders to cover our eyes because of our
• 12:27 love for sin.
• 12:29 We have bowed to many idols, many demons.
• 12:32 We've failed to look to Israel the fig tree to calculate the
• 12:35 coming in, but the signs of the end times are all around us if
• 12:38 you're in Israel.
• 12:39 Even today, rockets were shot off from the Gaza Strip even
• 12:42 coming as far as Jerusalem.
• 12:44 Sirens were going off and we were forced into bomb shelters.
• 12:48 Yeshua is coming soon, these are just the birth pains.
• 12:51 Joshua: He is coming soon, and while it's not so prevalent in
• 12:53 America anymore or necessarily Jerusalem, but when we grew up
• 12:56 in a time period before the '90s, it was not weird to go
• 13:00 through the streets of downtown and see people holding signs
• 13:03 that said, "The end is near, repent now."
• 13:06 You don't really see that now.
• 13:07 In fact, if somebody saw a sign that said the end is near,
• 13:11 they'd probably say that that was sus.
• 13:13 Now, because I'm super young I'll translate for those of you
• 13:16 who are older, that means to be suspect
• 13:18 or cringey in today's generation.
• 13:20 Joshua: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know my kids already told me that was
• 13:22 a very sus explanation of sus.
• 13:27 Joshua: But just because every one of those signs that was held
• 13:30 up, maybe those people didn't have the right motivation or
• 13:32 maybe they didn't have the right delivery, doesn't mean that the
• 13:35 message of repentance was actually wrong.
• 13:37 The question we have to ask ourselves today is why is it
• 13:39 when somebody offers us the message of repentance, the first
• 13:42 thing we react with in our heart is no, a stubbornness, a pride?
• 13:46 I don't need to repent, I didn't do wrong.
• 13:48 We put up a defensive wall when we should first in reaction be,
• 13:52 Lord, judge my heart.
• 13:54 Is there something that I need to repent from?
• 13:57 In fact, the church as a whole has really neutered its own
• 14:00 voice as time has gone on.
• 14:02 Instead of preaching the message of repentance and truth, it's
• 14:05 backed away from the idea of bad press if we say something that
• 14:07 people don't like.
• 14:09 Getting controversial to where people, you know, may
• 14:11 stop attending.
• 14:13 Without attendance, how do we pay for our buildings?
• 14:16 So, we've replaced the idea repentance with this false idea
• 14:19 of grace.
• 14:21 It's okay to do anything, anything that you want, all you
• 14:23 have to do is repent later.
• 14:26 All of these things and more are problems for us, and in the
• 14:30 Bible it says here in Matthew 7:16, "You can identify them by
• 14:34 their fruit, that is by the way they act."
• 14:37 Caleb: The fact of the matter is, it is the church's job to
• 14:40 defend truth and to speak truth and to declare the Word of God.
• 14:44 In fact, James 1:27 says, "Pure and genuine religion in the site
• 14:48 of God the Father means caring for the orphans and the widows
• 14:51 in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you."
• 14:56 Joshua: To answer my question from earlier, why is it when we
• 14:59 hear the term repent our first reaction is to be prideful
• 15:03 and defensive?
• 15:04 Well, it's very simple, because we don't want to repent.
• 15:07 I know that sounds really harsh and I don't want you to feel
• 15:10 judged or think that I'm just attacking every single person,
• 15:13 but generally when you get defensive against the idea of
• 15:15 repentance it's because you don't want to let go of
• 15:16 your sin.
• 15:17 You don't want to let go of the way you've been living your
• 15:19 life, and a lot of times even if you're not, quote/unquote,
• 15:21 "doing bad things," the way you're living your life is
• 15:24 for yourself.
• 15:25 If Yeshua came back for his bride today and he would begin
• 15:28 to walk through the streets, what would he find?
• 15:31 Sick, homeless, uncared for, people angry, fighting, shooting
• 15:36 rockets at each other, the world in complete disarray.
• 15:41 It is the responsibility of us who claim to be believers to put
• 15:44 aside our sin and cast aside all those things that would cause us
• 15:48 not to be able to live the way that the Father has set up for
• 15:52 us to do.
• 15:53 This verse right here, "I am not ashamed for the gospel of
• 15:56 Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone
• 15:59 who believes, for the Jew first and also the Greek,"
• 16:02 Romans 1:16.
• 16:04 Stand strong and proud in love.
• 16:08 It isn't judgment to stand up and say this is the truth.
• 16:11 It isn't judgment to condemn what is wrong.
• 16:13 If you truly love somebody, you'll speak the truth to them,
• 16:16 because that is what will set them free.
• 16:28 [singing in Hebrew]
• 16:36 [singing in Hebrew]
• 16:39 Caleb: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 16:43 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
• 16:48 all your soul and with all your strength."
• 16:56 Caleb: Any of you who may be familiar with our ministry may
• 16:59 have heard of Chaim Malespin of the Aliyah Return Center.
• 17:03 He's a longtime friend of this ministry.
• 17:05 He actually serves in the IDF as a sergeant major.
• 17:08 He's been fighting in Gaza this entire time since October
• 17:12 7th began.
• 17:13 He's a good friend.
• 17:15 Joshua: He has been so generous to offer us time in the middle
• 17:17 of his shifts from his phone on location.
• 17:20 You'll see that some of these interview portions may seem
• 17:23 disjointed, it's because he's had to stop in the middle of
• 17:25 this interview to go on patrol to handle business, but he shows
• 17:28 a unique perspective of what's been happening in Israel since
• 17:32 October 7th.
• 17:33 Let's take a look.
• 17:35 Caleb: And Chaim, thank you for joining us today.
• 17:37 Joshua: Now, before you jump in I gotta say this, looking at you
• 17:41 and what you're wearing right now, you look like the hybrid
• 17:44 between GI Joe and Chuck Norris if they were Jewish.
• 17:47 It's like the coolest, toughest-looking dude.
• 17:50 I feel completely unmasculine in your presence.
• 17:54 Chaim Malespin: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 17:56 Chuck Norris is the coolest.
• 17:58 I'd love to meet him one day, that'd be awesome.
• 18:01 My battery is kind of low, but I'll connect it to a charger.
• 18:06 Yeah, go on.
• 18:07 Caleb: You've pretty much been active in the war ever since
• 18:11 it began.
• 18:13 We know you've been in some tough situations in the Gaza.
• 18:16 Have you seen God supernaturally act on behalf of his people
• 18:20 Israel during this war?
• 18:23 Chaim: Yes, I would say there's so many stories that need to be
• 18:26 unpacked, such as from the very beginning, from the
• 18:30 very beginning.
• 18:32 And if I have to get off I'll have to get off with you--
• 18:36 [foreign language]
• 18:38 Sorry.
• 18:41 Caleb: Well, Chaim, we understand you're on patrol,
• 18:45 you're getting spotty reception, but this is the reality of
• 18:48 the situation.
• 18:50 Joshua: Wow, so he started to tell the stories about these
• 18:53 people that had sustained injuries that should have killed
• 18:55 them and then literally in a month, two or three months, he
• 18:58 sees them walking around completely whole, and the
• 19:02 question is how is this even possible?
• 19:03 And I love his response, they just healed super fast.
• 19:06 Like, funny, that just doesn't happen.
• 19:10 It's such a great way to, you know, if somebody doesn't know
• 19:12 Yeshua it would be like, let me tell you why that just happened.
• 19:15 And I'm pretty sure that Chaim has been able to be that witness
• 19:18 out there.
• 19:19 We're here waiting for a signal to come back.
• 19:21 As you could tell by his super cool outfit, he is still out
• 19:25 there on patrol.
• 19:26 I just think it's amazing that we live in a day and age with
• 19:29 the technology where he can literally phone in from the
• 19:32 front of a war, and he's willing to, and tell stories about
• 19:37 God's faithfulness.
• 19:39 Hopefully we get it back soon here, but I just think
• 19:41 it's incredible.
• 19:42 Chaim: How has the war impacted Israelis in drawing them back to
• 19:45 the God of Abraham?
• 19:46 I'd say, you know, do you remember 9/11?
• 19:49 If you're an American watching this, 9/11 had the impact it
• 19:52 had, people were suddenly looking for answers.
• 19:55 They see the death, they see the abyss in the eyes of people, and
• 20:00 they're searching, they're looking, you know, what is the
• 20:03 purpose of life?
• 20:04 We've been given this Promised Land, we were called by a
• 20:06 promise to be here in this land and to prepare the way and
• 20:11 remove the stones, prepare the highway of our God, and the
• 20:16 Messiah will live here, but why us and why does the ugly serpent
• 20:22 try to devour the seat of hope, to borrow, you know, phraseology
• 20:27 from the Bible?
• 20:28 You know, why in the world is this happening?
• 20:31 And it's called antisemitism, but it's really just anti-God's
• 20:33 plan, and when the Bible says 700 times he's gonna gather the
• 20:36 Jewish people here, we as the Aliyah Return Center are here
• 20:39 to house them for free, and that's thanks to generous people
• 20:42 like you.
• 20:44 And to give them not only that food, clothing, shelter, but
• 20:46 really bless them.
• 20:47 And when we see them coming back to this land, a lot of them run
• 20:51 from persecution and they're all looking for the God of Abraham.
• 20:54 So, I'd say just like 9/11, this is one of the greatest times
• 20:59 that I've ever seen in my life.
• 21:02 The greatest time I've ever seen in my life where people are
• 21:04 searching for the truth, people are putting on prayer shawls,
• 21:09 they're putting on the phylacteries, you know, you wrap
• 21:11 it on your arm, around your arm you'll wrap these up.
• 21:14 The Bible does say bind my word upon the frontlets of your eyes
• 21:18 and upon your arm, and so people will do that and they'll feel
• 21:22 that through these accessories they're drawing close to God,
• 21:25 they're getting closer.
• 21:26 I would say that that is prevalent, but here's the thing,
• 21:29 they don't know about Yeshua being the Messiah.
• 21:32 And that might sound ironic because he lived here and
• 21:34 thousands of people saw him rise up to heaven and his disciples
• 21:38 were all from here, they were Galileans like me.
• 21:41 They lived at the Sea of Galilee, but I know that there
• 21:44 is--they just don't know, they've never read the
• 21:46 New Testament.
• 21:48 A lot of people say, you know, Israel has rejected the Messiah,
• 21:51 and I say, well, that's not really true.
• 21:53 Think about it.
• 21:55 If they haven't read it, if they haven't read the New Testament,
• 21:56 they don't read the words of Yeshua.
• 21:59 All they know is a false narrative that that's some sort
• 22:01 of Catholic thing and some sort of a pagan thing maybe,
• 22:04 Christianity, and we don't want any part of that, we want the
• 22:07 God of Israel.
• 22:09 And they don't understand this is the Messiah of the God of
• 22:11 Israel who came to this land and made a covenant of peace with
• 22:16 this land and with this people and others are welcome to join
• 22:18 this tree of life, this olive tree of faith, and do.
• 22:23 And I just wanna say this, in this great time of war, people
• 22:27 and friends of mine have died, friends of mine have--I've
• 22:30 buried them, and it's so sad, but this is the time to press
• 22:35 in, this is the time really to stand with the believers in the
• 22:38 land who are making a difference in the lives of people.
• 22:40 This is the time to build trust where you could prove that
• 22:44 Christianity isn't this group that hates the God of Israel and
• 22:49 not have any connect to the people or the place where
• 22:53 God promised.
• 22:55 And I just wanna say this over Israel if you'll permit me,
• 22:57 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
• 22:59 will fear no evil, for you are with me.
• 23:01 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
• 23:03 Just that part, you know, this is a dark time, this is a dark
• 23:08 valley, it is a shadow of death, but yet we gotta fear no evil
• 23:12 because God is still on the throne.
• 23:14 He's still the God of Israel.
• 23:15 He still has a plan for Israel.
• 23:17 And that's how you know he has a plan for you, because he's
• 23:19 faithful to his promises for Israel.
• 23:24 David: I'd like to go back to you guys in your teaching on
• 23:26 Bible prophecy, how important it is about knowing about it and
• 23:31 teaching about it.
• 23:33 Are we talking about that in the church enough?
• 23:36 Caleb: Well, not enough.
• 23:38 Obviously, we wouldn't be talking about it if it wasn't
• 23:40 relevant, because God wants us to know what's going to happen.
• 23:44 But in this situation, the forewarnings of the prophets
• 23:48 was to let us know it's time to repent, that we strayed off that
• 23:52 narrow path that he has for us.
• 23:54 I remember a story.
• 23:55 Our good friend Israel Hanna, he's an evangelist who told us
• 23:58 about God told him it's time to warn America that judgment
• 24:02 is coming.
• 24:04 That's a pretty heavy topic.
• 24:05 Judgment was coming to America, so God said hop in a canoe and
• 24:08 go down the entire Mississippi river as a sign that judgment
• 24:11 was coming.
• 24:13 He was fighting like Jonah, he's like God, I can't do that,
• 24:14 you know, this is crazy.
• 24:16 You have to give me the exact date that I'm supposed to go.
• 24:19 And God said, okay, September 11th, 1999.
• 24:22 That's when he began his trip and everybody knows what
• 24:25 happened two years later.
• 24:27 Kirsten: Yeah, well, you talk about repentance, that's not a
• 24:31 fun word.
• 24:32 We like things that are joy of the Lord is your strength, that
• 24:35 kind of thing, you know, I mean, it's a hard person to say the
• 24:38 word repent or, and that was the prophet's job in the
• 24:42 Old Testament.
• 24:43 It wasn't prophetic words of, like, the Lord is gonna bless
• 24:46 you and keep you, and there are those but that repentance word,
• 24:50 that's a tough one to swallow.
• 24:52 Joshua: Our flesh doesn't like to hear the word "repent," but
• 24:54 if you think about it, repenting is merciful because if you
• 24:57 weren't given the option to repent, the other option is
• 24:59 paying the price for your sin.
• 25:01 And so, God has consistently shown that like a good Father,
• 25:04 he's given mankind, womankind, all of us time and time again to
• 25:08 repent over and over and over again, even when we continue
• 25:11 our mistakes.
• 25:12 So, when you look at this big Hebrew word
• 25:14 that's hard to pronounce.
• 25:15 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 25:18 Kirsten: You couldn't do that word?
• 25:20 Joshua: You know, I could but I don't like to spit
• 25:21 in my beard, right?
• 25:22 That word "repentance" basically means to go back around to the
• 25:26 very beginning where you started from and start over.
• 25:28 So, it's not just saying, oh, I messed up, I gotta, you know,
• 25:32 I'll try better next time, it literally means when we repent,
• 25:35 our job is to go back to the starting point where the mistake
• 25:37 happened and completely change our behavior and attitude as we
• 25:40 move forward.
• 25:41 But in doing that, when we do repent, he says I'm gonna
• 25:44 forgive you and I'm gonna absolve you of everything that
• 25:46 you've done that was wrong.
• 25:47 David: So in the church, it's knowing and believing.
• 25:50 We gotta do that more.
• 25:51 Caleb: And it's really hard with the church.
• 25:53 The church has been having difficulty, I think, ever
• 25:55 since COVID.
• 25:56 They were shocked when this plague was unleashed on mankind,
• 25:59 but I believe God gave us forewarning in advance to
• 26:02 prepare and the church should have been prepared when
• 26:04 COVID happened.
• 26:06 We get comments all the time, we're in the tribulation because
• 26:08 of COVID.
• 26:09 We're not in the tribulation yet, guys.
• 26:10 We haven't even endured persecution like Christians on
• 26:13 the other side of the world.
• 26:14 But January 28, 2020, Josh and I hopped in our mini Faraday cage,
• 26:19 it's our minivan as the Bearded Bible Brothers.
• 26:22 We gave a warning that God gave us to America, that was when the
• 26:25 Abraham Accords were signed, a peace deal, you know, to divide
• 26:28 up the lane of Israel, it was Netanyahu and Donald Trump and
• 26:31 they're gonna divide Judea and Samaria.
• 26:33 And we warned, hey, Joel 3:2 warns do not divide the land
• 26:38 of Israel.
• 26:39 God will cut you in pieces if you try to divide his land, and
• 26:41 what happened immediately after that?
• 26:42 Then COVID was unleashed, they both lost their office, their
• 26:46 seat of power, and it could have been stopped.
• 26:48 I believe God would have spared the world, the countries, our
• 26:51 countries of COVID, if we would have walked in obedience to him
• 26:54 and followed his word.
• 26:56 Kirsten: That's hefty, that's hefty.
• 26:58 David: Thank you for your word today.
• 27:00 We'll be right back.
• 27:02 David: Our resource this week, the book "Don't Die in Your
• 27:04 Sins," by Greg Hershberg.
• 27:07 When asked what happens after we die, people reveal they are
• 27:10 terrified of dying, yet our Savior teaches there is life
• 27:14 after death and two destinations to choose from.
• 27:17 There is something you can do to ensure that when you die you
• 27:21 will have everlasting life and happiness.
• 27:23 Contact us and ask for the book "Don't Die in Your Sins."
• 27:33 Kirsten: Our founder, Zola Levitt, knew the importance of
• 27:36 filming and teaching in the land of Israel.
• 27:40 Now, back then it probably was a little less expensive than it is
• 27:44 right now.
• 27:45 It's a costly endeavor to take our guys, our team, to the Holy
• 27:49 Land, but you, our viewers, make that happen.
• 27:53 So, for your faithful donations we thank you.
• 27:57 David: What's coming up next?
• 27:58 Caleb: Next week, the reformation begins, repentance,
• 28:01 and God moves.
• 28:03 You're not gonna want to miss it, guys.
• 28:04 Joshua: So, guys, as we like to say,
• 28:06 "Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim"
• 28:07 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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