Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “Forewarnings of Destruction” (3/8)

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• 00:49 Caleb Colson: Judah was on a countdown to their doom and
• 00:52 destruction whether King Josiah knew it or not.
• 00:55 You know, many years prior they saw the Assyrian Empire come and
• 01:00 take the children of Israel captive.
• 01:02 Those were the ten northern tribes also called Samaria, and
• 01:06 at this moment, Judah was getting forewarnings by God
• 01:10 that judgment would come to them as well.
• 01:12 Joshua Colson: Pro tip, when God says judgment is coming,
• 01:15 you repent.
• 01:17 Joshua: Originally, we were scheduled to film this in
• 01:20 Lachish, but war broke out between Israel and the
• 01:22 Gaza Strip.
• 01:24 So, even though we wanted to show you the historical place
• 01:27 where Syrian Babylon fulfilled the prophecy, blew Lachish out
• 01:30 of the water, we’ve had to adapt.
• 01:33 Here we are today.
• 01:34 Caleb: So, back to the story.
• 01:35 Judgment was coming on the kingdom of Judah.
• 01:39 God always sent his prophets early in advance to give them
• 01:43 that advanced warning.
• 01:44 We’re talking all the way back to the time of Moishe, Moses.
• 01:48 They heard what would happen in the future when they would turn
• 01:51 from God and follow after other gods.
• 01:53 Let’s read that scripture.
• 01:54 Deuteronomy 29:26-28, “They went off and worshiped other
• 01:59 gods and bow down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had
• 02:03 not given them.
• 02:04 Therefore, the Lord’s anger burned against this land so that
• 02:07 he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
• 02:10 In furious anger and in great wrath of the Lord uprooted them
• 02:13 from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is
• 02:16 written now.”
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• 02:32 Caleb: The freshest pomegranate juice I’ve ever had.
• 02:35 It’s like just if you took pomegranate and squeezed.
• 02:38 Oh, we did take a pomegranate and squeeze it.
• 02:42 Joshua: That prophecy was spot on.
• 02:44 The Israelites had future warning of their impending
• 02:47 consequences and the Lord supernaturally came in and saved
• 02:50 them on several occasions, but no matter what happened, they
• 02:53 never seemed to find consistency in their devotion to God.
• 02:56 It was always a roller coaster that was up and down.
• 02:59 The cycle went something like this.
• 03:01 Caleb: Okay, Israelites sin, get into apostasy, God sends his
• 03:04 prophets, warns in the judgment.
• 03:06 God removes his hand of protection.
• 03:08 Enemy comes, oppresses God’s people, they cry out to God for
• 03:11 help, God sends a deliverer, Israelites will say, yay, they
• 03:14 worship God again, and after their death, the vicious cycle
• 03:18 starts all over again.
• 03:19 Caleb: Now, I’m not a mathematician, but you
• 03:22 guys failed.
• 03:23 Joshua: Man, that’s a terrible cycle.
• 03:26 Maybe they figured it out the 15th time.
• 03:28 Caleb: Jeremiah 25:4-7, “Moreover, Adonai has sent to
• 03:33 you all of His servants the prophets, sending them early and
• 03:36 often but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear,
• 03:39 saying, ‘Turn, now, everyone from his evil way.
• 03:42 Do not go after other gods to serve them, to worship them, and
• 03:45 so do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so I would
• 03:48 do you no harm.’
• 03:50 Yet you have not listened to Me, declares Adonai, so you are
• 03:53 provoking Me with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.”
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• 04:12 Joshua: If you know your Bible, then you know the conclusion to
• 04:14 Israel’s sin.
• 04:15 After centuries of rebellion against God, he finally removed
• 04:19 his hand of protection and the Assyrian army came in and
• 04:22 decimated them and took them all captive.
• 04:24 He finally left them to their own devices.
• 04:27 Joshua: Wait a minute, does this mean if we leave our kids to
• 04:30 their own devices Assyria will come for them, too?
• 04:33 Caleb: Yes, yes, it does.
• 04:37 Joshua: Oopsie-daisy.
• 04:38 Caleb: Man, the sister kingdom, Judah, saw with their very eyes
• 04:41 the words of the prophet fulfilled.
• 04:43 Their brethren, Israel, were hauled away in shackles to a
• 04:46 foreign land that they didn’t know, and then Assyria came to
• 04:50 Judah’s doorstep, wiped out tons of the Judan cities, Sennacherib
• 04:53 and his armies to siege Jerusalem, but God
• 04:58 supernaturally intervened this pompous, arrogant army when
• 05:01 they spoke against the God of Israel, wiped out the
• 05:04 Assyrian forces.
• 05:05 At that moment, Manasseh was alive and he saw with his own
• 05:10 eyes the deliverance of the Lord, yet they would not believe
• 05:12 the words of the prophets and they failed to send and apostasy
• 05:15 again, and the next word from the prophets would be of an even
• 05:19 greater enemy that would come, Babylon.
• 05:23 Joshua: Habakkuk 1:5-6, “Look at the nations and watch and be
• 05:27 utterly amazed.
• 05:28 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous
• 05:31 people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings
• 05:34 not their own.
• 05:36 He, Babylon, gathers to himself all the nations and takes
• 05:39 captive all the peoples.”
• 05:41 Caleb: I’m here in the Jaffa Gate.
• 05:43 Lots of people around because half the city is closed down.
• 05:47 Rockets were raining down last night, shopping malls are
• 05:51 closed, a lot of the tourist sites are closed.
• 05:54 People are just chilling, wondering where do we go?
• 05:57 Let’s just sit around, eat some food, street vendor food.
• 06:03 Caleb: That prophecy from Habakkuk was given in the early
• 06:06 years of Josiah’s life, possibly even during his father’s life,
• 06:10 Ammon, but it calls out Babylon by name during a time when
• 06:15 Assyria was a world dominating ruler of that known territory.
• 06:20 And I find it interesting that Babylon was a lesser known area.
• 06:24 It wasn’t even a kingdom that people would think for an
• 06:26 instant would be able to rise up and become a world superpower.
• 06:30 Joshua: Yet, in God’s never-ending mercy, he sent his
• 06:33 servant, the prophets, to warn us of impending things.
• 06:37 Not to sit here and say look what you’ve done, you’re
• 06:40 horrible, to berate you, degrade you like your little
• 06:42 sister might.
• 06:44 No, he sent them so that he could inform you, you could make
• 06:47 the change and you could draw closer to him.
• 06:51 Joshua: Micah 1:16, “Shave your head in mourning, for the
• 06:54 children in whom you delight.
• 06:55 Make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will go from
• 06:58 you into exile.
• 07:00 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound
• 07:03 overgrown with thickets.”
• 07:07 Joshua: Micah prophesied the doom of Jerusalem and their
• 07:12 exile long before Babylon ever showed up at their doorstep, but
• 07:15 we do know that biblically, archaeologically, historically,
• 07:18 Babylon did come and decimate Jerusalem.
• 07:21 Jeremiah 34:7, When the army of the king of Babylon was warring
• 07:25 against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that
• 07:28 were left against Lachish, against Azekah, for these alone
• 07:31 remained all the cities of Judah as fortified cities.”
• 07:34 Caleb: Now, one of the many reasons we originally wanted to
• 07:37 go to Lachish, bombs are raining down again, we’re reminding you
• 07:41 so we can’t go over there right now, is because there was this
• 07:44 discovery move there many years ago on that tell.
• 07:47 Archaeological discovery was called the Lachish letters.
• 07:51 There were 18 pottery shards that had ancient Hebrew writings
• 07:55 on them.
• 07:56 They call them ostracon, and this verifies the story of
• 07:59 the Bible.
• 08:01 Joshua: Take that, even your kitchen pots are on God’s side.
• 08:06 Caleb: During a time when Nebuchadnezzar was besieging
• 08:09 Jerusalem, he was also besieging Lachish and Azekah and he had
• 08:15 them cornered, and so they had to have a secret form
• 08:17 of writing.
• 08:19 They wrote on these ostracon pots and sent messages back
• 08:21 and forth.
• 08:23 So, I want to read one of these messages because it backs up
• 08:25 that Bible story.
• 08:26 It’s called ostracon number three.
• 08:28 It was written in 609 B.C.
• 08:30 and it mentions the prophet Jeremiah and the prophet Uriah.
• 08:33 It says, “The commander of the army, Coniah, son of Elnatan,
• 08:37 has gone down to go to Egypt.
• 08:39 And as for the letter of Tobiah, the servant of the king, which
• 08:42 came to Shallum, son of Yada from the prophet,
• 08:45 saying, ‘Beware!
• 08:47 Your servant has sent it to my lord.'”
• 08:50 This is backing up a scripture passage in Jeremiah 26:20-23, an
• 08:55 interesting story where there is this rogue prophet Uriah who
• 08:58 says you guys gotta surrender, and the king at that time,
• 09:03 Jehoiakim, tries to hunt him down and he sends Elnatan, which
• 09:07 is the son of Akbar, who is Josiah’s trusted attendant, to
• 09:11 go hunt him down.
• 09:12 He goes all the way to Egypt to kill him.
• 09:13 When he mentions the prophet by name, he’s talking about
• 09:16 Jeremiah the prophet, verifying the Bible over and over again,
• 09:19 these ostracon.
• 09:20 You read about the prophet warns, the prophet warns, this
• 09:22 verifies the Bible that indeed what the Bible says is accurate
• 09:26 according to Babylon’s invasion and God’s warnings
• 09:29 against Judah.
• 09:31 Caleb: Zephania 1:4-6, “I will stretch out My hand against
• 09:35 Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• 09:38 I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names
• 09:41 of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests.
• 09:44 Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those
• 09:47 who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by
• 09:51 Milcom; those who have turned back from following the Lord,
• 09:54 and have not sought the Lord nor inquired of Him.”
• 09:58 Caleb: This was a prophecy that probably shook Josiah to his
• 10:01 very core, spoken by the prophet Zephaniah before his reforms
• 10:05 began and before Jeremiah would come on the scene, because the
• 10:09 detail that all these gods and goddesses and these high places
• 10:13 that the Judaeans were currently worshiping were false.
• 10:17 They were demons, and these idols were bringing about their
• 10:20 own doom and destruction.
• 10:21 Joshua: You know, there’s evil spirits behind every false idol.
• 10:24 They just love the attention.
• 10:26 Caleb: You said it, not me.
• 10:28 Joshua: I am not an evil spirit, come on.
• 10:33 Joshua: Nimrod worked with Satan to form the world’s very first
• 10:35 religions, the worship of the heavens, even fallen angels, but
• 10:39 God punished them by scattering the people.
• 10:42 You see, Israel had made a covenant with God to be his
• 10:45 bride, so you can understand how a jealous God wouldn’t want to
• 10:49 share his spouse with demons.
• 10:51 I know I wouldn’t.
• 10:52 Joshua: Jeremiah 3:6-11, “During the reign of King Josiah, the
• 10:56 Lord said to me, ‘Have you seen what faithless Israel has done?
• 11:00 She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading
• 11:03 tree and has committed adultery there.
• 11:06 I thought that after she had
• 11:07 done all this she would return
• 11:08 to me but she did not, and her
• 11:10 unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
• 11:12 I gave faithless Israel her
• 11:13 certificate of divorce
• 11:15 and sent her away because
• 11:16 of all of her adulteries.
• 11:18 Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear.
• 11:21 She also went out and committed adultery, because Israel’s
• 11:24 immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and
• 11:28 committed adultery with stone and wood.
• 11:30 The Lord said to me, ‘Faithless Israel is more righteous than
• 11:33 unfaithful Judah.'”
• 11:35 Caleb: Come on, the siren’s going off, you know what we have
• 11:38 to do.
• 11:40 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
• 11:41 Caleb: No, no, no, we gotta go in the bunker.
• 11:43 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
• 11:45 Caleb: Alright, fine, finish your shawarma.
• 11:46 Joshua: Thank you.
• 11:48 Caleb: I think the Iron Dome got ’em.
• 11:50 Yeah, God bless the Iron Dome and the USA for helping to
• 11:53 provide the Iron Dome, now we can eat.
• 11:59 Caleb: The Lord does nothing without speaking through his
• 12:02 servants the prophets, so the question is not has God spoken
• 12:05 through Israel or the nations and America of this coming
• 12:08 judgment, the question is why haven’t we paid attention to the
• 12:11 warning signs?
• 12:12 We have allowed blinders to cover our eyes because of our
• 12:15 love for sin.
• 12:17 We have bowed to many idols, many demons.
• 12:20 We’ve failed to look to Israel the fig tree to calculate the
• 12:23 coming in, but the signs of the end times are all around us if
• 12:26 you’re in Israel.
• 12:27 Even today, rockets were shot off from the Gaza Strip even
• 12:30 coming as far as Jerusalem.
• 12:32 Sirens were going off and we were forced into bomb shelters.
• 12:36 Yeshua is coming soon, these are just the birth pains.
• 12:39 Joshua: He is coming soon, and while it’s not so prevalent in
• 12:41 America anymore or necessarily Jerusalem, but when we grew up
• 12:44 in a time period before the ’90s, it was not weird to go
• 12:48 through the streets of downtown and see people holding signs
• 12:51 that said, “The end is near, repent now.”
• 12:54 You don’t really see that now.
• 12:55 In fact, if somebody saw a sign that said the end is near,
• 12:59 they’d probably say that that was sus.
• 13:01 Now, because I’m super young I’ll translate for those of you
• 13:04 who are older, that means to be suspect
• 13:06 or cringey in today’s generation.
• 13:08 Joshua: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know my kids already told me that was
• 13:10 a very sus explanation of sus.
• 13:15 Joshua: But just because every one of those signs that was held
• 13:18 up, maybe those people didn’t have the right motivation or
• 13:20 maybe they didn’t have the right delivery, doesn’t mean that the
• 13:23 message of repentance was actually wrong.
• 13:25 The question we have to ask ourselves today is why is it
• 13:27 when somebody offers us the message of repentance, the first
• 13:30 thing we react with in our heart is no, a stubbornness, a pride?
• 13:35 I don’t need to repent, I didn’t do wrong.
• 13:36 We put up a defensive wall when we should first in reaction be,
• 13:40 Lord, judge my heart.
• 13:42 Is there something that I need to repent from?
• 13:45 In fact, the church as a whole has really neutered its own
• 13:48 voice as time has gone on.
• 13:50 Instead of preaching the message of repentance and truth, it’s
• 13:53 backed away from the idea of bad press if we say something that
• 13:55 people don’t like.
• 13:57 Getting controversial to where people, you know, may
• 13:59 stop attending.
• 14:01 Without attendance, how do we pay for our buildings?
• 14:04 So, we’ve replaced the idea repentance with this false idea
• 14:07 of grace.
• 14:09 It’s okay to do anything, anything that you want, all you
• 14:11 have to do is repent later.
• 14:14 All of these things and more are problems for us, and in the
• 14:18 Bible it says here in Matthew 7:16, “You can identify them by
• 14:22 their fruit, that is by the way they act.”
• 14:25 Caleb: The fact of the matter is, it is the church’s job to
• 14:28 defend truth and to speak truth and to declare the Word of God.
• 14:32 In fact, James 1:27 says, “Pure and genuine religion in the site
• 14:36 of God the Father means caring for the orphans and the widows
• 14:39 in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”
• 14:44 Joshua: To answer my question from earlier, why is it when we
• 14:47 hear the term repent our first reaction is to be prideful
• 14:51 and defensive?
• 14:52 Well, it’s very simple, because we don’t want to repent.
• 14:55 I know that sounds really harsh and I don’t want you to feel
• 14:58 judged or think that I’m just attacking every single person,
• 15:01 but generally when you get defensive against the idea of
• 15:03 repentance it’s because you don’t want to let go of
• 15:04 your sin.
• 15:05 You don’t want to let go of the way you’ve been living your
• 15:07 life, and a lot of times even if you’re not, quote/unquote,
• 15:09 “doing bad things,” the way you’re living your life is
• 15:12 for yourself.
• 15:13 If Yeshua came back for his bride today and he would begin
• 15:16 to walk through the streets, what would he find?
• 15:19 Sick, homeless, uncared for, people angry, fighting, shooting
• 15:24 rockets at each other, the world in complete disarray.
• 15:29 It is the responsibility of us who claim to be believers to put
• 15:32 aside our sin and cast aside all those things that would cause us
• 15:36 not to be able to live the way that the Father has set up for
• 15:40 us to do.
• 15:41 This verse right here, “I am not ashamed for the gospel of
• 15:44 Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone
• 15:48 who believes, for the Jew first and also the Greek,”
• 15:50 Romans 1:16.
• 15:52 Stand strong and proud in love.
• 15:56 It isn’t judgment to stand up and say this is the truth.
• 15:59 It isn’t judgment to condemn what is wrong.
• 16:02 If you truly love somebody, you’ll speak the truth to them,
• 16:04 because that is what will set them free.
• 16:16 [singing in Hebrew]
• 16:24 [singing in Hebrew]
• 16:27 Caleb: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 16:31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
• 16:36 all your soul and with all your strength.”
• 16:44 Caleb: Any of you who may be familiar with our ministry may
• 16:47 have heard of Chaim Malespin of the Aliyah Return Center.
• 16:51 He’s a longtime friend of this ministry.
• 16:53 He actually serves in the IDF as a sergeant major.
• 16:56 He’s been fighting in Gaza this entire time since October
• 17:00 7th began.
• 17:01 He’s a good friend.
• 17:03 Joshua: He has been so generous to offer us time in the middle
• 17:05 of his shifts from his phone on location.
• 17:08 You’ll see that some of these interview portions may seem
• 17:11 disjointed, it’s because he’s had to stop in the middle of
• 17:13 this interview to go on patrol to handle business, but he shows
• 17:16 a unique perspective of what’s been happening in Israel since
• 17:20 October 7th.
• 17:21 Let’s take a look.
• 17:23 Caleb: And Chaim, thank you for joining us today.
• 17:25 Joshua: Now, before you jump in I gotta say this, looking at you
• 17:29 and what you’re wearing right now, you look like the hybrid
• 17:32 between GI Joe and Chuck Norris if they were Jewish.
• 17:35 It’s like the coolest, toughest-looking dude.
• 17:38 I feel completely unmasculine in your presence.
• 17:42 Chaim Malespin: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 17:44 Chuck Norris is the coolest.
• 17:46 I’d love to meet him one day, that’d be awesome.
• 17:49 My battery is kind of low, but I’ll connect it to a charger.
• 17:54 Yeah, go on.
• 17:55 Caleb: You’ve pretty much been active in the war ever since
• 17:59 it began.
• 18:01 We know you’ve been in some tough situations in the Gaza.
• 18:04 Have you seen God supernaturally act on behalf of his people
• 18:08 Israel during this war?
• 18:11 Chaim: Yes, I would say there’s so many stories that need to be
• 18:14 unpacked, such as from the very beginning, from the
• 18:18 very beginning.
• 18:20 And if I have to get off I’ll have to get off with you–
• 18:24 [foreign language]
• 18:26 Sorry.
• 18:29 Caleb: Well, Chaim, we understand you’re on patrol,
• 18:33 you’re getting spotty reception, but this is the reality of
• 18:36 the situation.
• 18:38 Joshua: Wow, so he started to tell the stories about these
• 18:41 people that had sustained injuries that should have killed
• 18:43 them and then literally in a month, two or three months, he
• 18:46 sees them walking around completely whole, and the
• 18:50 question is how is this even possible?
• 18:51 And I love his response, they just healed super fast.
• 18:54 Like, funny, that just doesn’t happen.
• 18:58 It’s such a great way to, you know, if somebody doesn’t know
• 19:00 Yeshua it would be like, let me tell you why that just happened.
• 19:03 And I’m pretty sure that Chaim has been able to be that witness
• 19:06 out there.
• 19:07 We’re here waiting for a signal to come back.
• 19:09 As you could tell by his super cool outfit, he is still out
• 19:13 there on patrol.
• 19:15 I just think it’s amazing that we live in a day and age with
• 19:17 the technology where he can literally phone in from the
• 19:20 front of a war, and he’s willing to, and tell stories about
• 19:25 God’s faithfulness.
• 19:27 Hopefully we get it back soon here, but I just think
• 19:29 it’s incredible.
• 19:30 Chaim: How has the war impacted Israelis in drawing them back to
• 19:33 the God of Abraham?
• 19:34 I’d say, you know, do you remember 9/11?
• 19:37 If you’re an American watching this, 9/11 had the impact it
• 19:40 had, people were suddenly looking for answers.
• 19:43 They see the death, they see the abyss in the eyes of people, and
• 19:49 they’re searching, they’re looking, you know, what is the
• 19:51 purpose of life?
• 19:52 We’ve been given this Promised Land, we were called by a
• 19:54 promise to be here in this land and to prepare the way and
• 19:59 remove the stones, prepare the highway of our God, and the
• 20:04 Messiah will live here, but why us and why does the ugly serpent
• 20:10 try to devour the seat of hope, to borrow, you know, phraseology
• 20:15 from the Bible?
• 20:16 You know, why in the world is this happening?
• 20:19 And it’s called antisemitism, but it’s really just anti-God’s
• 20:21 plan, and when the Bible says 700 times he’s gonna gather the
• 20:24 Jewish people here, we as the Aliyah Return Center are here
• 20:27 to house them for free, and that’s thanks to generous people
• 20:30 like you.
• 20:32 And to give them not only that food, clothing, shelter, but
• 20:34 really bless them.
• 20:35 And when we see them coming back to this land, a lot of them run
• 20:39 from persecution and they’re all looking for the God of Abraham.
• 20:42 So, I’d say just like 9/11, this is one of the greatest times
• 20:47 that I’ve ever seen in my life.
• 20:50 The greatest time I’ve ever seen in my life where people are
• 20:52 searching for the truth, people are putting on prayer shawls,
• 20:57 they’re putting on the phylacteries, you know, you wrap
• 20:59 it on your arm, around your arm you’ll wrap these up.
• 21:02 The Bible does say bind my word upon the frontlets of your eyes
• 21:06 and upon your arm, and so people will do that and they’ll feel
• 21:10 that through these accessories they’re drawing close to God,
• 21:13 they’re getting closer.
• 21:14 I would say that that is prevalent, but here’s the thing,
• 21:17 they don’t know about Yeshua being the Messiah.
• 21:20 And that might sound ironic because he lived here and
• 21:22 thousands of people saw him rise up to heaven and his disciples
• 21:26 were all from here, they were Galileans like me.
• 21:29 They lived at the Sea of Galilee, but I know that there
• 21:32 is–they just don’t know, they’ve never read the
• 21:34 New Testament.
• 21:36 A lot of people say, you know, Israel has rejected the Messiah,
• 21:39 and I say, well, that’s not really true.
• 21:41 Think about it.
• 21:43 If they haven’t read it, if they haven’t read the New Testament,
• 21:44 they don’t read the words of Yeshua.
• 21:47 All they know is a false narrative that that’s some sort
• 21:49 of Catholic thing and some sort of a pagan thing maybe,
• 21:52 Christianity, and we don’t want any part of that, we want the
• 21:55 God of Israel.
• 21:57 And they don’t understand this is the Messiah of the God of
• 21:59 Israel who came to this land and made a covenant of peace with
• 22:04 this land and with this people and others are welcome to join
• 22:06 this tree of life, this olive tree of faith, and do.
• 22:11 And I just wanna say this, in this great time of war, people
• 22:15 and friends of mine have died, friends of mine have–I’ve
• 22:18 buried them, and it’s so sad, but this is the time to press
• 22:23 in, this is the time really to stand with the believers in the
• 22:26 land who are making a difference in the lives of people.
• 22:28 This is the time to build trust where you could prove that
• 22:32 Christianity isn’t this group that hates the God of Israel and
• 22:37 not have any connection to the people or the place where
• 22:41 God promised.
• 22:43 And I just wanna say this over Israel if you’ll permit me,
• 22:45 “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
• 22:47 will fear no evil, for you are with me.
• 22:49 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
• 22:51 Just that part, you know, this is a dark time, this is a dark
• 22:56 valley, it is a shadow of death, but yet we gotta fear no evil
• 23:00 because God is still on the throne.
• 23:02 He’s still the God of Israel.
• 23:03 He still has a plan for Israel.
• 23:05 And that’s how you know he has a plan for you, because he’s
• 23:08 faithful to his promises for Israel.
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• 23:48 Mike Ferland: You know, guys, the symbolism and the parallel
• 23:52 between the US and Israel is pretty amazing.
• 23:56 You know, in the episode we’re talking about the warnings that
• 23:59 would come, and the United States, we’ve had our fair share
• 24:02 of warnings.
• 24:03 You know, I mean, even just recently, you think of just
• 24:05 September 11, right, that horrible day.
• 24:08 This judgment comes, what happens?
• 24:11 People turn back to God, they come together, it’s like we’re
• 24:14 crying out to God to help us.
• 24:15 He does, and then we just fall back into more and more issues
• 24:20 with it.
• 24:22 We have COVID, right?
• 24:23 People come together, right?
• 24:24 We cry out to God, help us.
• 24:26 He does, and now we’re just a few years after COVID and we’re
• 24:31 falling back into the old habits of sinfulness.
• 24:35 Ryan Economy: Man, I saw this fable not too long ago of it’s a
• 24:40 story of there’s two wolves.
• 24:42 You have a– you have two wolves, one that is darkness and
• 24:46 despair and one that is light and hope, and the question was,
• 24:52 if they fought, who would win?
• 24:54 And it’s kind of like a trick question, and then the answer is
• 24:57 whatever one you feed, so whatever one you’re feeding.
• 24:59 If you want to feed the darkness and despair, which sometimes
• 25:03 we’ll feed the light one and get into the, oh, we’re really
• 25:06 positive and happiness, and then sometimes we’ll just kind of
• 25:08 slip away and start feeding some of those dark ones and kind of
• 25:12 relating to the history of, like, we start seeing, like, a
• 25:15 tragedy, then we start turning our ways to the light, towards
• 25:20 Jesus, and then sometimes we’ll slip back away.
• 25:24 Some– I feel like with various reasons, some people are
• 25:27 intentional, some people are accidental.
• 25:29 Like, they don’t realize, it’s just the culture or the people
• 25:31 that they’re surrounding themselves with, so.
• 25:33 Joshua Colson: Fable, are you like 117?
• 25:36 Fables, Aesop spoke in fables, but that’s not the point.
• 25:39 It is true, you look at the cycle.
• 25:41 We look at America, and the second that October 7 happens,
• 25:46 for a matter of days, pro-Israel.
• 25:48 We’re supporting them, and then literally within days on our
• 25:51 college campuses, on social media, everywhere, we see
• 25:55 anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, and there’s a judgment associated
• 25:58 with that, and that is in the Bible.
• 26:00 When you’re going to bless Israel, you’re going to be
• 26:01 blessed, and when you’re going to curse Israel, you’re going to
• 26:03 be cursed.
• 26:04 And America has continued to set themselves up in this bad way
• 26:06 when they decide to try to take Israel’s land, when they decide
• 26:09 to curse Israel.
• 26:10 When we as a nation don’t stand with Israel, we’re putting
• 26:13 ourselves in the way of judgment.
• 26:14 Caleb Colson: And we see that in Matthew 25, the end of that
• 26:17 chapter when Yeshua just lays out the judgment of the sheep
• 26:20 and goats.
• 26:21 We see that in Joel chapter 3. This judgment is related to how
• 26:25 the nations treat Israel.
• 26:27 Did they bless Israel when they were hungry?
• 26:29 Did they feed Israel, you know, did they clothe Israel?
• 26:33 But the curses make curses come against us, and when they try to
• 26:37 divide the land of Israel, when they try to hurt the people of
• 26:40 Israel, God says, “I’m wiping them out,” and there will be
• 26:43 that judgment of the sheep and goats where those on his right
• 26:45 hand get to enter into His kingdom and those on his left
• 26:48 are cast into outer darkness.
• 26:50 So that’s how imperative, that’s how harsh this judgment is going
• 26:55 to be and could come to America.
• 26:58 And it may come, but it doesn’t have to come in our time.
• 27:01 If we repent, if we turn our hearts back to God, he will turn
• 27:05 his heart toward us, and he will pour out his Spirit on us, and
• 27:09 we can have a revival.
• 27:10 But judgment is coming and we have that warning sign, and we
• 27:14 just want people to repent so that we can avert the
• 27:18 destruction that could come.
• 27:20 So, we want to remind you as you go to sha’alu
• 27:23 shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:25 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:30 announcer: Our resource this week, the book “Don’t Die in
• 27:33 Your Sins,” by Greg Hershberg.
• 27:35 When asked what happens after we die, people reveal they are
• 27:38 terrified of dying, yet our Savior teaches there is life
• 27:42 after death and two destinations to choose from.
• 27:46 There is something you can do to ensure that when you die you
• 27:49 will have everlasting life and happiness.
• 27:51 Contact us and ask for the book “Don’t Die in Your Sins.”
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• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.