Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “Beginnings of Reformation” (4/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
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• 00:49 Caleb Colson: We’re at the Western Wall today.
• 00:52 It’s Bar Mitzvah day, the day that these young kiddos
• 00:55 become men.
• 00:56 It’s Jewish tradition at the age of 13 boys become men in the
• 01:00 eyes of God, and typically at this time, you know, life
• 01:03 expectancy was short back then, Josh.
• 01:05 I mean, much shorter than it is today, especially if you were
• 01:08 lower class.
• 01:09 Joshua Colson: Really, brother?
• 01:11 Two minutes in and you’re already mocking the
• 01:13 caste system.
• 01:14 Well, guess what?
• 01:15 It’s 2024, baby, everybody in America is in the bottom,
• 01:17 thanks, inflation.
• 01:20 Caleb: And when these kids became men, they had to be
• 01:23 established in a trade.
• 01:24 They had to learn a craft.
• 01:26 Sometimes they even started before this age, so that then
• 01:29 when they were thoroughly capable of taking care of their
• 01:31 family, they would get married.
• 01:32 The girls would get married as soon as puberty and the boys
• 01:36 would be a few years older after that.
• 01:38 Joshua: And dating the age of Josiah and his children, we know
• 01:40 that Josiah was married around 12 or 13 and immediately started
• 01:43 having kiddos.
• 01:45 I always like to check back with Jewish historian Josephus,
• 01:48 because usually he’s accurate 95% of the time, even though
• 01:51 sometimes the timing of a few events are off, but he had
• 01:53 access to historical documents that we don’t have access
• 01:56 to today.
• 01:57 So, in checking out on Josiah, here’s what he has to say.
• 02:00 Joshua: Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book X chapter 4, “And
• 02:03 when he, Josiah, was 12 years old, he gave demonstrations of
• 02:06 his religious and righteous behavior, for he brought the
• 02:09 people to a sober way of living, and exhorted them to leave off
• 02:13 the opinion that they had of their idols, because they were
• 02:15 not God’s, but to worship their own God, and by reflecting on
• 02:18 the actions of his progenitors, he prudently corrected what they
• 02:21 did wrong, like a very elderly man, like one abundantly able to
• 02:25 understand what was fit to be done.”
• 02:30 Caleb: You know, old man Josiah, I actually really like that.
• 02:32 God already bestowed great wisdom and knowledge on Josiah
• 02:36 at such a young age.
• 02:37 You know, he became king at the age of eight, but his hands were
• 02:40 tied to matters of the state.
• 02:42 Governor of–Hilkiah the high priest, and the elders
• 02:46 of the synod had to take care of those matters for him, but he
• 02:48 was trained up to learn how to rule by Achbor his attendant.
• 02:52 And Josephus says that, “And thus, he, Josiah, acted in
• 02:57 following the wisdom and sagacity of his own nature, and
• 03:01 in compliance with the advice and instruction of the elders.”
• 03:04 Joshua: However, it wasn’t until Josiah was 20 years old that he
• 03:08 was able to fully step into that mantle of ruling as king,
• 03:11 because this was the legal age that Moses had laid down in the
• 03:14 law of accountability that a man was ready to do that.
• 03:17 Caleb: That’s right.
• 03:18 Joshua: Don’t even get me started on the legal age of
• 03:20 manhood, 20 not even close enough.
• 03:23 Most of the people I know, 37, maybe 42.
• 03:26 They shouldn’t be men.
• 03:28 The people I’ve seen in America, not men.
• 03:30 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:3, “In the eighth year of his
• 03:33 reign, while he, Josiah, was still young, he began to seek
• 03:36 the God of his father David.
• 03:37 In his twelfth year at age 20, he began to purge Judah and
• 03:40 Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles, and idols.”
• 03:46 Caleb: Inspired by the words of Zephaniah and Habakkuk, Josiah
• 03:50 hits the ground running and begins reforming the country
• 03:53 within the scope of his knowledge.
• 03:54 Joshua: Remember, he doesn’t have access to the books of the
• 03:56 law, he only has access to the previously-spoken prophecies of
• 04:01 the prophets, but he knows enough in his common sense to
• 04:03 know that there’s only one true God.
• 04:05 These other people worshiping idols, those are not good.
• 04:08 Caleb: Now, to get a true sense of how Josiah reformed the land,
• 04:11 we decided to look everywhere in the country for evidence that he
• 04:14 didn’t do what the Bible says he did.
• 04:16 So, we’re gonna go next to an amazing location that’s very
• 04:20 famous for idolatry in times past.
• 04:22 Joshua: What, we’re going to that?
• 04:24 Caleb: Well, yeah.
• 04:26 Caleb: Yeah, that was me.
• 04:28 I was the guy who made the entire crew go to the worst,
• 04:31 most pagan high places on all the trip.
• 04:34 You know, maybe I wasn’t the most popular guy, but I can’t
• 04:37 wait to go idol smashing.
• 04:39 Joshua: Brother, put the sword down, we’re indoors.
• 04:44 Joshua: The apostasy and idolatry of yesterday isn’t that
• 04:47 much different from idolatry today, but Satan’s good at
• 04:51 rebranding, confusing man who expects idol worship to be
• 04:55 a literal golden calf that someone bows to.
• 04:58 So, we decided to go on the nose to showcase the evidence of the
• 05:02 origins of idolatry for Judah and the Israelites by traveling
• 05:06 to the furthest northern reaches of the ten tribes territory at
• 05:10 the high place of Tel Dan.
• 05:14 Caleb: And it was here but the poo hit the fan.
• 05:17 Thanks very much, guys, Israelite sinning idolatry,
• 05:21 golden calf stuff.
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• 05:28 Caleb: Apparently learned we have to hike to our location.
• 05:31 It’s not straight off the parking lot.
• 05:33 We’re Americans, we’re not quite used to this.
• 05:35 Joshua: That’s okay, it’s only an hour and 45 minutes.
• 05:40 Caleb: We’re taking the short path, the short cut, yeah.
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• 05:53 Caleb: I didn’t know we had to do so much walking on this
• 05:56 trip, Josh.
• 05:57 Joshua: I was told that they were going to cart us place to
• 05:59 place and we just had to talk about the Bible.
• 06:03 This cardio stuff was not a part of the plan.
• 06:05 Caleb: I did not prepare for this.
• 06:06 I thought we were above-the-line class, you know, talent,
• 06:10 we don’t have to do all this work.
• 06:12 Joshua: Welcome to the line at Israel.
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• 06:23 Caleb: Well, we finally made it to Tel Dan.
• 06:25 Look at these walls up here.
• 06:26 This was a protective layer for their fortress so that bad guys
• 06:29 couldn’t come and invade.
• 06:31 As you can see, they’re pretty big.
• 06:32 I don’t think I can scale that wall, can you, Josh?
• 06:34 Joshua: It would take a minute for me to find my hops for that.
• 06:37 Probably not gonna happen.
• 06:39 Caleb: Very cool.
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• 06:50 Joshua: We have finally arrived at the most northern reaches of
• 06:52 Israel bordering Lebanon, and this territory was given to the
• 06:55 tribe of Dan.
• 06:57 They had wonderful water that flowed down from Mount Hermon.
• 07:00 They were situated along major highways so they had trade
• 07:02 routes come by.
• 07:04 The archaeologists, they found something special here, a high
• 07:05 place, a place of worship that proved the intricate stories of
• 07:10 the Bible.
• 07:11 Caleb: That’s right, because of King Solomon’s despicable sin of
• 07:13 idolatry and refusal to clean house, God stripped the kingdom
• 07:17 from his son, Rehoboam.
• 07:19 He was only allotted two tribes to the south.
• 07:21 To the north was ten tribes of Israel which were given to
• 07:24 Jeroboam ben Nebat.
• 07:26 Now, soon he screwed up because he figured out the only house of
• 07:31 worship, the only temple, was in the territory of Judah, so what
• 07:34 would he do?
• 07:36 Joshua: First Kings 12:26-30, “Jeroboam thought to himself,
• 07:41 ‘The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
• 07:44 If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the
• 07:47 Lord in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to
• 07:51 their lord, Rehoboam, king of Judah.
• 07:53 They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.’
• 07:56 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves.
• 08:00 He said to the people, ‘It is too much for you to go
• 08:03 to Jerusalem.
• 08:04 Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
• 08:08 One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
• 08:11 And this thing became a sin, the people came to worship the one
• 08:15 at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.”
• 08:21 Joshua: So, this is where it all went down, a former high place
• 08:24 for the Canaanites.
• 08:25 Jeroboam decides that he’s gonna build a great place of
• 08:28 worship atop those ruins dedicated to the golden calf
• 08:32 goddess of the Egyptians, Hathor.
• 08:35 Caleb: I admit, I was a bit disappointed to find no altar or
• 08:40 golden calf at Tel Dan.
• 08:43 Now we can’t go idol smashing.
• 08:48 Joshua: I don’t know, Brother, I’m no genius, I thought maybe
• 08:50 we’d learned our lesson from Mount Sinai with the golden
• 08:53 calf, but not.
• 08:54 Caleb: A lot of death and destruction happened because of
• 08:56 that event.
• 08:57 Now, here, as you can see this mock replica of the altars where
• 09:00 they found that Jeroboam built that brazen altar, and upon that
• 09:04 platform where the golden calf was situated.
• 09:07 Now, many archaeologists consider and believe that it’s
• 09:11 possible that King Josiah came here when he was cleansing
• 09:14 the land.
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• 09:24 Caleb: Second Kings 23:19, “Josiah also removed all the
• 09:28 houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria
• 09:32 which the kings of Israel had made provoking the Lord.”
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• 09:47 Joshua: Now, there has been some debate amongst scholars as
• 09:50 to whether or not Josiah made it here because of the discovery of
• 09:53 standing stones at the gates.
• 09:54 Now, 2 Kings 23:8 says that Josiah tore down the standing
• 09:58 stones at the high places.
• 10:00 Now, the Assyrians had destroyed the place and it was covered in
• 10:04 ash, so they think maybe he missed Tel Dan because of that.
• 10:08 Caleb: But the destructive evidence of this site is in
• 10:11 compliance with how King Josiah desecrated the high places.
• 10:14 Just west of here is the Naphtali Ridge that acted as the
• 10:18 border to the territory of Dan, and thus when we read in 2
• 10:21 Chronicles about Josiah going as far as Naphtali into the ruins,
• 10:26 he most probably did come here.
• 10:28 Joshua: That makes sense.
• 10:31 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:6-7, “In the town of
• 10:35 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali , and in the
• 10:39 ruins around them, he, Josiah, tore down the altars and the
• 10:44 Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to
• 10:48 pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel.
• 10:50 Then he went back to Jerusalem.”
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• 10:58 Caleb: Now, this is the part of the story that I personally
• 11:00 find amazing.
• 11:02 King Josiah wasn’t just atoning for the sins of the Kingdom of
• 11:04 Judah, but for his brothers to the north.
• 11:07 Even though most of the Israelites were long gone and
• 11:10 held captive in Assyria, he made it his mission to go in and
• 11:14 atone for their sins and remove that curse that was placed on
• 11:18 that territory because of the idolatry, because of the
• 11:21 defilement, because of the perversion that they acted in
• 11:26 in worshiping demons.
• 11:29 Caleb: Second chronicles 34:4-5, “Under his, Josiah’s, direction
• 11:34 the altars of the Baals were torn down.
• 11:37 He cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them and
• 11:41 smashed the Asherah poles and the idols.
• 11:44 These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of
• 11:47 those who had sacrificed to them.
• 11:50 He burned the bones of a priest on their altars, and so he
• 11:54 purged Judah and Jerusalem.”
• 11:57 Joshua: And Josiah was literally 20 years old, and the maturity
• 12:01 level spiritually of this 20 year old was far beyond most
• 12:04 20 year olds today.
• 12:06 No offense, guys.
• 12:07 Joshua: You know what?
• 12:08 I take it back.
• 12:10 Okay, 20 year olds, welcome to manhood.
• 12:11 Definitely looks like it with your super thin mustaches.
• 12:12 Nobody’s ever done that before.
• 12:14 Oh, wait, you’re not allowed in school zones,
• 12:15 especially in panel vans.
• 12:17 I wouldn’t go ahead and choose–
• 12:18 Caleb: Josh, that’s our target demographic.
• 12:21 You can’t make fun of it.
• 12:22 Joshua: God has chosen you for such a time as this at the exact
• 12:25 age of 20, congratulations.
• 12:27 Welcome to manhood.
• 12:30 Joshua: But I always thought that the timing was a little
• 12:32 interesting at these reforms, because God brings another young
• 12:36 man to his life, probably only 13 years old, to be a prophet
• 12:39 to Josiah.
• 12:41 Jeremiah 1:1-2 says, “The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
• 12:46 of the priests who were of Anathoth in the land of
• 12:49 Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of
• 12:52 Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
• 12:56 of his reign.”
• 12:57 Caleb: Now, Jeremiah the famous prophet was commissioned by God
• 13:01 one year into Josiah’s first reformation, and Josiah did all
• 13:05 this work cleansing the land, and here’s what God said to
• 13:08 approve of his work.
• 13:09 Joshua: Jeremiah 1:14-16 says, “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Out
• 13:14 of the north calamity shall break forth on all the
• 13:17 inhabitants of the land.
• 13:18 For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the
• 13:21 north,’ says the Lord.
• 13:22 ‘They shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance
• 13:26 of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all
• 13:29 around, and against all the cities of Judah.
• 13:31 I will utter My judgments against them concerning all
• 13:34 their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense
• 13:38 to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'”
• 13:43 Caleb: What a devastating message.
• 13:45 Not you did a good job, but judgment is coming.
• 13:49 And here we get a sense of why God chose Jeremiah to be
• 13:52 so young.
• 13:54 I mean, here Josiah was 21 years old and he probably remembered
• 13:56 when he was just a boy and his hands were tied and he wasn’t
• 14:00 allowed to do everything that God had placed in his heart, but
• 14:03 that was intentional by God.
• 14:05 And most rabbis believe that Josiah authenticated Jeremiah as
• 14:10 a true prophet.
• 14:11 That he paid them the wages of the prophet.
• 14:13 That he gave him a residence in Jerusalem, because as soon as
• 14:16 Jeremiah started to prophesy, his own family disowned him.
• 14:19 Joshua: I love Josiah’s heart towards Jeremiah, because he
• 14:22 never silences him, he doesn’t chastise him, he doesn’t say
• 14:26 stop, you’re young, you don’t know what you’re doing, he lets
• 14:28 him speak the word and he welcomed from God in his limited
• 14:31 knowledge of the law when he was wrong, he welcomed
• 14:34 God’s reproof.
• 14:35 He was always ready to do the right thing.
• 14:37 Caleb: Guys, some people say we need a revival.
• 14:39 I don’t think a revival is enough.
• 14:41 Some people say we need a great awakening like times past, but
• 14:45 first we need to be awakened to the concept of sin.
• 14:48 But truly, like Josiah, we need a great reformation, changing
• 14:53 from this point on, turning our backs on everything and
• 14:57 continuing on the path to righteousness.
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• 15:07 Caleb: Here we are today in modern Israel.
• 15:08 Behind me is the second largest mosque in all of the country.
• 15:12 The first is Al-Aqsa mosque, and though it’s peaceful right now,
• 15:16 Josh, you hear the birds chirping, it’s shabbat,
• 15:19 elsewhere in Israel around the Gaza Strip, hundreds of rockets
• 15:23 are being fired off into peaceful Israeli villages and
• 15:26 they are going into bomb shelters.
• 15:28 I find it heartbreaking the thing that people do in the name
• 15:31 of these false pagan gods, which is why we’re supposed to serve
• 15:34 the one true God.
• 15:36 Joshua: The world today is in just about as a place as it was
• 15:39 back then.
• 15:41 Back then, the streets were adorned with idols, they were
• 15:44 adorned with pagan symbols, and at least back then when they saw
• 15:48 it, they noticed that and they cringed.
• 15:50 But how many times have you walked past or driven past
• 15:54 a mosque in your town or a Buddhist temple or a Masonic
• 15:57 lodge or any of these other shrines to other gods and
• 16:00 thought nothing of it?
• 16:02 You simply drove by.
• 16:03 Or maybe you thought because you go to a synagogue or you go to
• 16:06 a Christian church, your church is perfect and there’s nothing
• 16:09 at all that could be going wrong inside of it.
• 16:12 You become complacent, and because of that, the church,
• 16:16 the body of Christ, Christianity, is no longer the
• 16:20 leading religion in the world.
• 16:21 In fact, the leading growing religion in the world is
• 16:24 Islam, why?
• 16:26 Because their people are so dedicated to the worship and the
• 16:30 faith of a false demon god, Allah.
• 16:33 So, what are we supposed to do, you say?
• 16:36 I can’t stand up and say anything against it.
• 16:38 What if I get retaliated against?
• 16:40 What if they shut down my Instagram for speaking the truth
• 16:43 and I can’t tweet anymore?
• 16:44 If it’s even called that.
• 16:45 I’m glad you asked.
• 16:47 First Peter 3:14 says, “But even if I should suffer for
• 16:51 righteousness’ sake, you are blessed.
• 16:53 ‘And do not be afraid of their threats nor be troubled,’ but
• 16:57 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.”
• 17:00 Trust me, I get that it can be scary.
• 17:02 I remember as a kid never ever wanting to be a prophet or have
• 17:05 the gift of a prophet.
• 17:06 I remember reading all the stories about their job.
• 17:08 Their job was to go tell everybody you’re doing this
• 17:11 wrong and you need to repent, and if you don’t repent this is
• 17:13 what’s gonna happen.
• 17:15 Nobody wants to be that guy because nobody wants to be
• 17:17 ostracized or hated for those things that they have to say,
• 17:21 it’s true.
• 17:22 But no matter how bad you think the outcome in this life is for
• 17:25 standing up for the truth, the outcome in the life to come for
• 17:29 doing nothing is far worse than anything anybody could do.
• 17:33 In this life there’s literally nothing that they can do to you.
• 17:37 Yes, they can hurt your physical body, but you’re not a physical
• 17:40 body, you are an eternal spirit being.
• 17:44 You will live eternally with the Father, and no matter what they
• 17:47 try to bring against you in this life, he stands for you and he
• 17:51 defends you.
• 17:53 When I look at the life of Josiah, do you know what the
• 17:55 most sobering thing is to me?
• 17:56 This man who started his kingship at age eight, who then
• 18:00 went for 31 more years reforming the land to the degree that we
• 18:04 have not seen anybody else do, is that he dedicated his life to
• 18:07 reforming the church, not the lost.
• 18:11 Let that sink in while 12 mind-blown emojis pop up on your
• 18:14 social media.
• 18:16 His life was dedicated to reforming the body of Christ
• 18:20 in essence.
• 18:22 The bombs are going off behind me right now, you can hear it.
• 18:25 We’re living in the last time, in the last age.
• 18:28 You don’t have time anymore to say it’s not my job.
• 18:32 We don’t have time to live in complacency and say we love
• 18:35 Yeshua on a Sunday or on a Wednesday, but then go live like
• 18:39 the world and hide in complacency every time you’ve
• 18:42 been called to speak the truth in love.
• 18:44 And those who don’t know, those who are sitting there when these
• 18:47 sirens go off and may lose their life today, will spend an
• 18:51 eternity separated from the Father.
• 18:54 Reform begins today, and it begins with you, and all he’s
• 18:58 asked you to do is stand for him, stand for him the way he
• 19:02 died for you with his head held high saying, “That is my Son,”
• 19:08 just as we’re called to say he is my Father.
• 19:13 Mark 8:36 says, “For what shall it profit a man to gain the
• 19:16 whole world and forfeit his soul?”
• 19:19 Today is your day.
• 19:22 Today is your day to choose.
• 19:24 [siren blaring]
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• 20:10 [speaking in Hebrew]
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• 20:35 ♪♪♪
• 20:47 [shouting]
• 20:53 [explosions]
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• 21:09 [Caleb singing in Hebrew]
• 21:20 Joshua: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 21:24 You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all
• 21:28 of your soul, with all of your strength.
• 21:34 ♪♪♪
• 21:40 Oliver Melnick: You know, Jewish people speak of October 7th like
• 21:44 holocaust 2.0 or second holocaust.
• 21:46 Unfortunately, I mean, I understand the gravity of it now
• 21:50 from a theological perspective.
• 21:52 We know that during the tribulation, two-thirds of the
• 21:54 Jewish people, Zachariah 13:8-9, are going to perish.
• 21:59 We know that, so that’s gonna be worse than the first holocaust,
• 22:02 but this, what happened in Israel on October 7th, we know
• 22:06 now was the largest, the heaviest death toll of Jewish
• 22:12 people in one day since the holocaust.
• 22:14 And what it has done, it’s kind of scary even every time I see
• 22:18 it, but even beyond the normalization of anti-Semitism,
• 22:20 it is almost like anti-Semitism is becoming ready for that word,
• 22:25 because I don’t even like using it, trendy.
• 22:29 Caleb: It’s cool to hate Jews now.
• 22:30 Oliver: It’s becoming cool to hate Jews.
• 22:32 It’s trendy, and I never thought that we would get there before
• 22:36 the Rapture.
• 22:38 You know, like, you know, I expected those things to happen
• 22:40 during the Tribulation, and especially the second half of
• 22:43 the Tribulation, and we know from the Bible also specifically
• 22:46 that the whole world is gonna go against Israel.
• 22:50 If what’s important to people is how many followers they have
• 22:53 because it makes you feel important, then you wanna be
• 22:56 controversial saying something about Israel or the Jews,
• 22:59 because biblical truth does not get you a lot of followers,
• 23:01 unfortunately, it never will.
• 23:03 It’s lonely at the top, you know, with, you know.
• 23:06 So, yeah, people, but you know, I look at the youth and the way
• 23:09 they’ve been walking on campuses and streets and they keep
• 23:12 screaming, you know, “From the river to the sea, Palestine
• 23:15 shall be free.”
• 23:16 There was a guy who actually did some interviewing, I don’t know
• 23:18 if you saw the video, he did some interviewing on the streets
• 23:21 and on campuses, and he asked the people what river and
• 23:25 what sea?
• 23:27 They didn’t know what river, they didn’t know what sea.
• 23:29 Well, the river in Gaza.
• 23:32 It was embarrassing, and these young people are screaming that
• 23:37 slogan because they think it’s the expression of social
• 23:41 justice, but really from the River Jordan to the sea, the
• 23:45 Mediterranean, means from, you know, from east to west, west to
• 23:50 east, north, south, wipe all the Jews off the map of Israel.
• 23:54 And you know, no Jews allowed, kill them all.
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• 24:20 Mike Ferland: Here we have the story of Josiah right after he
• 24:24 finishes his degree in Bible and theology and all of his years
• 24:29 of experience.
• 24:30 Wait a minute.
• 24:32 Caleb: He has a lot of influencers at that point, like
• 24:33 he’s followers and–.
• 24:35 Mike: Yeah, so we have this guy Josiah who, no formal education,
• 24:40 he’s young, but what does he know?
• 24:44 We need God.
• 24:45 Right, imagine if we had somebody in my generation, maybe
• 24:49 we’re too old, Ryan’s generation, the generation that
• 24:52 you teach, with all of the available social media being
• 24:55 able to influence millions of people from their home.
• 24:58 What if one of them would rise up and be a Josiah and say,
• 25:01 “Hey, we need God”?
• 25:04 Ryan Economy: Social media and all the ways that we could
• 25:06 corrupt kids’s minds with, like, different games or different
• 25:09 videos and stuff like that.
• 25:11 There are people that are posting on social media that are
• 25:15 using it for the good gifts, you know, like the Bearded Bible
• 25:18 Brothers that are using social media for a good way, or you see
• 25:20 even like big celebrities like Chris Pratt who will still talk
• 25:24 about loving Jesus and stuff, like, even though Hollywood
• 25:27 doesn’t really care as much for that stuff.
• 25:29 But people are still standing up and speaking the truth.
• 25:33 Joshua: This episode took place right in the middle of October
• 25:36 7. Caleb and I and our team were there on the ground, and as I
• 25:40 began to speak about today being the day to choose whether you
• 25:44 will spend eternity with the Father or do you live in eternal
• 25:48 separation, missiles began to fire over my head, and the Iron
• 25:53 Dome began to strike back.
• 25:54 Caleb, feverishly behind the camera, continued to say, “Go,
• 25:57 go, go,” as the Holy Spirit prompted me to lead a salvation
• 25:59 message that is as relevant today as it will be for all
• 26:03 mankind, all of time.
• 26:07 You are not promised tomorrow.
• 26:09 The things that we complain about, the things that we
• 26:11 idolize, the things that we crave in our society today, they
• 26:15 will literally burn on this earth.
• 26:18 Your soul will live forever, and it will live forever with your
• 26:20 Creator or it’ll live forever separated.
• 26:22 Today is your day to choose.
• 26:24 Caleb: There may come a day when Nebuchadnezzar would come to our
• 26:27 shores, not literal Nebuchadnezzar, but someone who
• 26:30 would bring judgment and destruction.
• 26:32 But today doesn’t have to be that day.
• 26:34 We have a moment of reprieve, I believe right now that we can
• 26:39 change fates, that we can have that outpouring of the Holy
• 26:43 Spirit, that we can have that moment of repentance.
• 26:45 It all starts with one person, like you mentioned, Mike, one
• 26:48 person just doing what they can do, whether it’s going out to
• 26:52 vote or speaking in your community or even going to your
• 26:55 church or leading people to, you know, your church and just
• 26:59 leading your neighbors to Yeshua.
• 27:01 We all have a job to do within our own sphere of influence.
• 27:06 And so, we don’t have to be the president to do it or the king
• 27:09 of Judah to do it.
• 27:12 And I pray that each one of you are stirred by God to do what
• 27:16 you can do to change the world.
• 27:19 And at least we know that you can sha’alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:23 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:30 Joshua: You know when a really cool movie comes out and they
• 27:32 make a novelization of it, which goes into way more depth than
• 27:34 the movie’s time allotted, but then the book ends up sucking?
• 27:37 Well, this is not that scenario.
• 27:39 This week we’re offering the book, “Josiah and the Last
• 27:41 Reformation,” written by my little brother.
• 27:43 Caleb lays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
• 27:47 giving behind-the-scenes details of how we filmed our series at
• 27:49 the onslaught of the war with Hamas.
• 27:51 Learn more about “Idol Smashing” and “Josiah and the
• 27:54 Last Reformation.”
• 27:55 Like I’d even read.
• 27:57 Caleb: Josh, we’re still recording.
• 27:59 Joshua: Uh-oh.
• 28:00 Joshua: Did you know the Bearded Bible Brothers is an outreach of
• 28:02 Zola Levitt Ministries?
• 28:03 That means we are entirely donor funded.
• 28:06 Consider giving at Levitt.com.
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• 28:21 Join the Bearded Brothers in person on a study tour of
• 28:24 Israel, Greece, and Petra and see the Bible come alive.
• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.