Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “Discovering the Torah” (5/8)

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• 00:38 Joshua Colson: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Temple Mount
• 00:40 time again.
• 00:41 As usual, we play the game, “How long can we teach the
• 00:43 Bible before getting caught?”
• 00:45 Stay tuned to the end of this episode for our grand finale.
• 00:47 Now we’ve reached the pinnacle of our story.
• 00:50 The part of the story that everybody knows in synagogue
• 00:52 and church.
• 00:54 It’s the part where once was lost is now found, and it
• 00:58 changes everything.
• 01:00 Caleb Colson: And this is where it all went down, 622 BC.
• 01:03 Six years into Josiah’s reformation, he decided to
• 01:07 repair the temple of the Lord.
• 01:09 Well, it had gotten into disrepair.
• 01:12 Hundred years prior, King Hezekiah had enlarged it.
• 01:16 The Mount had really made it pretty, but people had been
• 01:19 focused on demon gods, and it just–it needed some help.
• 01:24 Joshua: Boy howdy.
• 01:26 Caleb: But it’s very interesting that most people think that
• 01:31 where the dome of the rock is is where the holy of holies is on
• 01:34 that rock in there.
• 01:35 We believe it’s at the dome of the spirits ’cause it’s in
• 01:38 direct alignment with the eastern gate, thus they would
• 01:42 have to look straight through the eastern gate when they
• 01:44 performed the red heifer sacrifice in the Mount of Olives
• 01:47 in order to look into the holy of holies.
• 01:52 Caleb: Interesting to note: since we filmed this episode,
• 01:54 we’ve had the opportunity to speak to renowned archaeologist
• 01:57 Dr. Randall Price.
• 01:59 He believes that the current eastern gate is not the location
• 02:02 of the original but that it lied further south and under the wall
• 02:06 and that they found remnants of it even today.
• 02:09 If that is the case, then Dr. Price is correct in assuming
• 02:13 that the current location of the dome of Iraq is where the second
• 02:16 temple resided.
• 02:17 We’ll have to investigate these claims further.
• 02:21 Josephus’s “Antiquities of the Jews,” book 10, chapter 4. “He,”
• 02:26 Josiah, “also sent over all the country, and desired such as
• 02:30 pleased, to bring gold and silver for the repairs of the
• 02:33 temple, according to every ones inclinations and abilities.”
• 02:38 Joshua: It was an offering that Josiah was requesting the
• 02:40 people, not a demand.
• 02:42 He wanted to give them an opportunity to be a part and to
• 02:45 be blessed by God.
• 02:46 I’m sure he could have afforded it on his own.
• 02:48 He didn’t need the money.
• 02:50 It was about helping them get to the point where they had
• 02:52 committed their heart, soul, and mind to what God was having
• 02:55 them do.
• 02:58 2 Chronicles 34:8-9, “In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s
• 03:02 reign, to purify the land of the temple, he sent Shaphan son of
• 03:06 Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of
• 03:11 Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
• 03:16 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money
• 03:19 that had been brought into the temple of God, which the Levites
• 03:22 who were the gatekeepers had collected from the people of
• 03:24 Manasseh, Ephraim and the entire remnant of Israel and from all
• 03:28 the people of Judah and Benjamin and all the inhabitants
• 03:31 of Jerusalem.”
• 03:33 Caleb: This is, guys, one of the most telling parts of the story.
• 03:37 There are survivors of the ten tribes of Israel, a remnant that
• 03:40 had returned to the land.
• 03:42 Josephus says that they escaped during all the chaos in Assyria.
• 03:46 Somebody even survived and were still there.
• 03:49 And you know that Josiah was listening to Jeremiah’s commands
• 03:54 by God to preach to them, to witness to them, to encourage
• 03:58 them, and we know that they were part of that group
• 04:03 that gave an offering to the Lord to repair the temple.
• 04:06 Joshua: 2 Kings 2:22.
• 04:08 Josiah wanted to show his trust for these workers, these masons
• 04:11 who would be repairing the temple.
• 04:13 Instead of lording over them, he wanted them to know that he
• 04:16 believed that they would do what was right in the eyes of God.
• 04:19 That’s awesome.
• 04:22 2 Kings 22:7.
• 04:25 Josiah said, “But they need not account for the money entrusted
• 04:29 to them, because they are honest in their dealings.”
• 04:32 2 Chronicles 34:12 then says, “The workers
• 04:36 labored faithfully.”
• 04:40 Caleb: Guys, Josiah was right to trust the builders.
• 04:43 They did their job well.
• 04:45 And after the repairs were complete, they had a surplus
• 04:47 of money.
• 04:49 So they decided to bring all those funds out of the temple,
• 04:52 and they’re gonna put ’em to good use by creating new
• 04:54 articles for the temple, refabricating some of the old
• 04:57 ones that had gone to damage and disrepair.
• 05:00 But while Hilkiah, the high priest, was rummaging around in
• 05:04 the hidden alcoves of the temple, he discovered something
• 05:07 that would change history.
• 05:09 Something that had been lost for ages.
• 05:11 Something that they thought Manasseh had destroyed all of.
• 05:15 Listen to this scripture.
• 05:18 2 Chronicles 34:14, “While they were bringing out the money that
• 05:22 had been taken into the temple of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest
• 05:26 found the Book of the Law of the Lord that had been given
• 05:28 through Moses.”
• 05:30 Not to ruin the momentum of the story, but
• 05:33 there’s a few points we need to touch on.
• 05:34 Number one, that will probably be the last time we’re allowed
• 05:37 to teach on the Temple Mount.
• 05:39 We may have made the covenant “Do not admit” list, but number
• 05:43 two, the next teaching you’re about to see actually takes
• 05:46 place after the war of Hamas began, ’cause we do shoot these
• 05:50 things out of sequence.
• 05:51 You know, we wouldn’t be dumb enough to go on the Temple Mount
• 05:54 after the war of Hamas began, would we?
• 05:57 Joshua: Hey, Caleb, I got that disguise for the Temple Mount
• 06:00 that we’re going tomorrow.
• 06:02 Caleb: Shh.
• 06:06 Joshua: Brother, where we at?
• 06:07 Caleb: We are at the kotel, the Western Wall.
• 06:09 There’s not a lot of people here ’cause, yeah, there’s war.
• 06:13 This is the emptiest we’ve seen it because of Sukkot and
• 06:15 everything–it was just packed.
• 06:17 We’re about to go into the tunnels beneath the Western
• 06:20 Wall, where the ancient Roman streets were.
• 06:23 So this ought to be interesting.
• 06:25 Joshua: And ancient.
• 06:26 Caleb: Ancient.
• 06:29 Caleb: We are here under the kotel, the Western Wall, in a
• 06:33 myriad of passages that, as you can see, it’s dark, but these
• 06:38 are the original walls and structures that Herod the Great
• 06:41 made from his complex.
• 06:43 And as you can see, there’s underground cities, if you will.
• 06:48 There’s Roman streets.
• 06:49 There’s aqueducts.
• 06:51 There’s even a synagogue.
• 06:52 But just as we are hidden beneath the wall here, so was
• 06:56 the Book of the Law hidden from Josiah and the people.
• 06:58 Joshua: Can you imagine how close we came to not having the
• 07:01 Book of the Law at all?
• 07:02 One copy left found.
• 07:04 The Ten Commandments–had that not been, we might not have had
• 07:07 God’s law today, which is crazy to think about.
• 07:14 Caleb: “Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king,”
• 07:16 Josiah, “‘Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.’
• 07:20 And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
• 07:23 When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes.
• 07:26 He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son
• 07:30 of Micah, Shaphan the secretary and Asiah the king’s attendant:
• 07:34 ‘Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel
• 07:37 and Judah about what is written in this book that has
• 07:41 been found.
• 07:42 Great is the Lord’s anger that is poured out on us because
• 07:44 those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the
• 07:47 Lord; they have not acted in accordance with all that is
• 07:50 written in this book.'”
• 07:53 Joshua: This was serious.
• 07:55 Josiah was shaken.
• 07:56 It finally made sense to him why Jeremiah kept prophesyin’ doom
• 07:59 and gloom was gonna happen.
• 08:01 He’d finally seen the Law.
• 08:03 He’d finally seen all of the things–the Moadim, the seven
• 08:06 feasts–and he realized, “We’re guilty.
• 08:09 We’ve messed it all up.”
• 08:11 But he made a decision to intercede on behalf of God, not
• 08:14 just for Judah but for the other remnant of Israel.
• 08:17 Caleb: So the king needed a prophet to tell him the Word of
• 08:20 the Lord.
• 08:21 At the moment, Jeremiah was missing, probably to the north,
• 08:25 prophesyin’ to the remnant of Israel.
• 08:26 So what did they do?
• 08:28 They couldn’t find Zephaniah.
• 08:30 The attendant of the king, who was a royal wardrobe keeper, was
• 08:33 named Harhas.
• 08:34 But he had son who is married to Huldah.
• 08:37 She was a neviah, a prophetess.
• 08:39 So the gang goes to Huldah, the neviah, to
• 08:41 hear of a Word from the Lord.
• 08:43 This is what she said.
• 08:47 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 34:24-25, “This is what the Lord says: I
• 08:52 am going to bring disaster on this place and its people–all
• 08:55 the curses written in the book that has been read in the
• 08:57 presence of the king Judah.
• 08:58 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other
• 09:01 gods, and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made.”
• 09:09 Joshua: Well, that’s depressing.
• 09:11 Who wants to be the guy that delivers that message to Josiah?
• 09:14 You see, in the last verse, God chops him down a
• 09:17 peg or two, all right?
• 09:18 He sends the prophet to her–to him, and Huldah prophesies,
• 09:22 “Tell that man who sent you to me.”
• 09:24 Not “Deliver this message to the king.”
• 09:26 Not “Please bring it to him.”
• 09:27 “That normal guy over there, give that message to him.”
• 09:29 Caleb: God wasn’t trying to insult Josiah.
• 09:31 He was trying to prove to the Jews that no man, not even the
• 09:35 king, was above Torah.
• 09:36 That all would be held accountable if they
• 09:38 trespassed it.
• 09:39 This was important.
• 09:41 All were held guilty, and all needed atonement.
• 09:47 2 Chronicles 34:27-28.
• 09:50 “But Josiah, because your heart was responsive and you humbled
• 09:54 yourself before God and tore your robes and wept in my
• 09:57 presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.
• 10:00 Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be
• 10:04 buried in peace.
• 10:05 Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on
• 10:08 this place and on those who live here.”
• 10:14 Joshua: So how would you respond if God had said that to you?
• 10:16 Fear, anger, frustration?
• 10:19 How ’bout this one: “You know, I’m not really gonna change what
• 10:22 I’m doin’, ’cause he said I’d be spared, so it doesn’t really
• 10:24 affect me.”
• 10:25 It’s funny because I think probably a lot of modern pastors
• 10:28 would say that because they’re focused on theirselves.
• 10:31 Caleb: But not Josiah.
• 10:32 He knew God’s Words were true, and he wanted to get his people
• 10:36 a fighting chance at righteousness.
• 10:38 He wanted to train them up to possibly get an extension of
• 10:41 judgment for them.
• 10:42 Now, that is a real king.
• 10:46 Joshua: What we’ve learned through crawling through all
• 10:48 these ancient tunnels of Judean streets is: they weren’t
• 10:50 that tall.
• 10:52 We, however, are tall.
• 10:53 King Josiah, us.
• 10:56 It doesn’t work well.
• 10:58 Hopefully we don’t get too claustrophobic.
• 11:01 2 Kings 23:1-3, “Then the king called together all the elders
• 11:06 of Judah and Jerusalem.
• 11:07 He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah,
• 11:10 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and prophets–all
• 11:13 the people from the least to the greatest.
• 11:15 He read in their hearings all the words of the Book of
• 11:17 the Covenant.
• 11:19 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the
• 11:21 presence of the Lord–to follow the Lord and keep his commands,
• 11:24 statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus
• 11:27 confirming the word of the covenant written in this book.
• 11:30 Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.”
• 11:35 Caleb: Now, Josiah himself in this position of authority read
• 11:38 the Torah to all the people.
• 11:40 He pledged himself to God, and then they pledged themselves
• 11:44 to God.
• 11:45 This was very important.
• 11:46 He was their representative, and then they followed as well.
• 11:49 And then I believe he read a specific passage in Deuteronomy
• 11:53 that changed his heart and his life forever.
• 11:55 Let’s read that passage.
• 11:57 Deuteronomy 17:18-20, “Now when he,” a king, “sits on the throne
• 12:02 of his kingdom, he is to write for himself a copy of this Torah
• 12:05 on a scroll, from what is before the Levitical kohanim.
• 12:08 It will remain with him, and he will read in it all the days of
• 12:11 his life, in order to learn to Adonai his God and keep all the
• 12:15 words of this Torah and these statutes.
• 12:17 Then his heart will not be exalted above his brothers, and
• 12:20 he will not turn from the commandment to the right or to
• 12:22 the left–so that he may prolong his days in his
• 12:25 kingship, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.”
• 12:33 Joshua: So what do you think Josiah does when he finds
• 12:35 this out?
• 12:36 He finally has the playbook.
• 12:37 He goes full speed.
• 12:39 He decides to purify the land of Judah, to purify the remnants.
• 12:42 You’ll have no idea what this guy does next.
• 12:44 We’re gonna check it out next week.
• 12:49 Caleb: The question is, how far would you go to serve the Lord?
• 12:52 What sacrifice would you make?
• 12:54 To what depths would you descend?
• 12:56 How high a mount would you climb?
• 12:59 That is the question of the day.
• 13:00 The purpose behind this entire series.
• 13:02 The reason why God brought us to this message in the first place.
• 13:09 Is it possible today to push back God’s prophetic timeline?
• 13:14 Is it possible to hold off Babylon the Great’s coming for
• 13:19 one more year, for one more month, one more day?
• 13:22 Can our repentance now, if we truly turn back to God, grant us
• 13:27 that reprieve that we’ve been hoping for–a revival, a great
• 13:30 awakening, a great reformation– or is it too late?
• 13:34 Are we too far past that precipice, that point of
• 13:37 no return?
• 13:39 Even as we speak, the sirens are going off behind us, and they’re
• 13:42 probably gonna usher us into a bunker now.
• 13:45 But we know time is short and judgment is coming to America
• 13:50 and Israel.
• 13:51 Joshua: What would you do?
• 13:53 That’s the question, and it’s haunting.
• 13:56 It’s easy for us to say, “Oh, I’d be like Peter.
• 13:58 I’d jump up and I’d say, ‘I’d die for you, Lord.
• 14:00 I promise I would.'”
• 14:02 But the thing is, he’s not asking you to die for him.
• 14:04 He’s asking you something much harder.
• 14:06 He wants you to live for him.
• 14:10 Romans 12:1 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
• 14:12 mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living,” not dead,
• 14:15 “sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
• 14:18 reasonable service.”
• 14:21 Guys, we’ve said it already.
• 14:24 Time is short.
• 14:25 We actually were just ushered off of this location because the
• 14:28 sirens went off again.
• 14:30 Missiles have been fired today multiple times.
• 14:32 There is war here in Israel.
• 14:34 This alone adds to the evidence that we need to make a
• 14:39 difference and a change today, to not let time pass us
• 14:43 by anymore.
• 14:44 You know, we look at the time of Josiah
• 14:46 and we think, “It’s a little bit different.”
• 14:47 You know, it was.
• 14:49 They were probably ahead of us a little bit morally than we have
• 14:51 dropped down to today, and they actually had an excuse because
• 14:55 Manasseh had burned the Torah.
• 14:57 They didn’t actually know what the law was.
• 14:59 But the second, the second that Josiah found the law, he humbled
• 15:03 himself, and he repented, and he immediately initialized change
• 15:08 and reformation.
• 15:09 Now, you say, “We haven’t done what they’ve done.
• 15:13 We haven’t burned the law.” Have we not?
• 15:14 We’ve taken it out of courthouses.
• 15:16 We’ve taken it off–out of prayer in school.
• 15:18 We’ve removed it from–anything that says “America” and “God,”
• 15:21 we’ve done our best to cut it out.
• 15:24 Now, this didn’t happen just yesterday.
• 15:26 This is something that’s been happening slowly over years.
• 15:29 We’ve talked about before how Satan just slowly pushes that
• 15:32 line, slowly gets us acclimated.
• 15:34 Slowly, slowly, slowly.
• 15:35 And you say, “Well, what can I do to change?
• 15:37 I’m not a politician.
• 15:38 I’m not the president. I’d vote, but it’s all rigged.
• 15:40 It’s not gonna make any difference.”
• 15:42 Every person that says that is another person that’s not
• 15:44 making change.
• 15:45 And yet the wicked stand up boldly and proclaim their lies
• 15:49 and their sin and their idolatry and their pagan views, and we
• 15:52 wonder why we can’t make that change.
• 15:54 Because the righteous men and women of God are not standing
• 15:58 up, proclaiming the truth against that.
• 16:00 You think your numbers are too small?
• 16:02 Josiah was one man.
• 16:04 He may have been king, but he was a young man.
• 16:06 What would it have been like at 20 years old when he finally got
• 16:09 all of the rights of his kingship to stand against all
• 16:12 these old men and say, “Make this change.
• 16:15 This is what we’re gonna do.”
• 16:16 That’s what he did.
• 16:19 I wanna ask you this question: who do you think God is more
• 16:23 proud of?
• 16:24 The believer who sits there in his complete, blatant sin, who’s
• 16:28 chosen to live on that far side, or the believer who hasn’t
• 16:33 picked a side, who lives in complacency, who sits there not
• 16:37 choosing and sayin’, “Yeah, well, you know, it’s not up
• 16:40 to me.”
• 16:41 I can tell you who he’s proud of: neither.
• 16:43 But I can tell you who he wants to spew out of his mouth.
• 16:46 It’s the complacent one.
• 16:48 We have for too long now, as a nation, as a people group, and
• 16:53 as an individual, taken our hands off and decided that if we
• 16:57 duck our heads down and if we stay quiet long enough, it’ll
• 17:01 pass on and we can just exist, or as the bumper stickers
• 17:04 say, coexist.
• 17:06 But with God, there is no coexistence with sin.
• 17:11 There is no sitting here with your arm around Baal and your
• 17:14 arm around, you know, Asherah poles and everything else.
• 17:17 But that’s what’s happened today.
• 17:19 So what do we need to do?
• 17:21 Today is the call to change.
• 17:22 It’s not too late.
• 17:24 All you have to do is abandon the pride, as Josiah did.
• 17:27 He humbled himself before the Father.
• 17:29 He said, “I didn’t know.”
• 17:32 We don’t even get that excuse. We do know.
• 17:34 So here’s how it goes: “Father, I know.
• 17:37 I know I’ve sinned, and I repent.
• 17:41 Wash me clean.
• 17:43 Let your Holy Spirit speak through me the truth that you
• 17:46 would have me speak.”
• 17:48 And we stand strong in his forgiveness and his repentance,
• 17:52 realizing that a standing proclamation for truth is not
• 17:55 the admittance that you’re perfect.
• 17:57 That’s a tool of the enemy.
• 17:58 You can’t speak the truth.
• 18:00 Somebody’s gonna exploit what you’re not good at in life.
• 18:02 It’s not about you.
• 18:03 It was about Yeshua’s perfect life.
• 18:05 And it’s his–it’s–his life is the reason you can stand
• 18:09 boldly and proclaim that message.
• 18:11 Caleb: Amen.
• 18:13 ♪ Sh’ma, Israel: ♪
• 18:16 ♪ Adonai Eloheinu, ♪
• 18:20 ♪ Adonai Ehad. ♪♪
• 18:23 Caleb: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
• 18:26 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
• 18:30 all your soul, with all your strength.”
• 18:34 Caleb: In the past few years, Israel Hanna, Wisdom That Heals
• 18:38 Ministries, has become a close friend of ours.
• 18:40 He is an amazing evangelist of God.
• 18:43 He goes to Israel and preaches the gospel.
• 18:45 He’s the guy who you want beside you in any bad situation ’cause
• 18:48 you know his prayers are heard from God.
• 18:50 Joshua: They are, and if you’ve seen this man,
• 18:51 you will never forget this man.
• 18:53 He leaves an impact everywhere he goes visually but
• 18:55 also spiritually.
• 18:56 He has so much to say about Josiah and the last reformation,
• 19:00 and–I don’t wanna spoil it–but the impact
• 19:01 today on our lives.
• 19:03 Let’s check it out.
• 19:05 Israel Hanna: We are in a time frame that we need to decide–
• 19:09 each one of us individually– are we going to give ourselves
• 19:13 fully to God or are we going to go our own way and do our
• 19:17 own thing?
• 19:18 And it’s very important.
• 19:19 Just, you know, talkin’ about Josiah is the–basically, the
• 19:23 restoration of the temple.
• 19:25 And each one of us, as intense as times are right now, in order
• 19:29 to really fully follow God, there’s parts of us that need to
• 19:35 actually be restored, and that’s what Josiah did.
• 19:38 As a young king who came into his position of authority, he
• 19:45 actually restored the temple in a way that brought, you know,
• 19:49 God back to Israel, back to the temple, restored the temple.
• 19:54 Josiah found the Book of the Law, and as he cleansed the
• 19:58 temple, he read that book.
• 20:00 Now, I don’t know if you’ve talked about this, but a lot of
• 20:03 people believe that book that was lost, the lost book that
• 20:07 Josiah read, was the book of Deuteronomy.
• 20:12 And Deuteronomy is the–it’s the perfect message for the day.
• 20:16 And that is, “I have called heaven and earth to witness
• 20:19 against you today.
• 20:21 I place before you life and death, blessings or cursings;
• 20:26 therefore, choose life so that you and your children
• 20:29 shall live.
• 20:30 Love God, love Him obediently, and firmly embrace Him as your
• 20:37 Father,” basically.
• 20:39 You know, that’s what’s happening in this world today.
• 20:43 That very message I have set before you
• 20:45 this day, we have the right to choose either life or death,
• 20:48 blessings or cursings.
• 20:50 And we need to do that because not only then will our temple be
• 20:55 restored, but we will have the– we’ll be in sync with our
• 21:00 heavenly Father who is–who lives within us.
• 21:03 We become, then, the temple of God.
• 21:06 We.
• 21:07 This is 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 16.
• 21:10 “Do not you realize that all of you together are the temple of
• 21:16 God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?”
• 21:20 We can go down a little bit to– and then we go to John chapter
• 21:25 17, verse 20 and 21.
• 21:28 “I pray that all may be one: as You, Father, are in Me and I in
• 21:34 You, that You also may be one in Us, that the world may believe
• 21:39 that You sent Us.”
• 21:42 You know, a lot of people argue against the Trinity.
• 21:44 “God is one.”
• 21:45 God is one, that’s a fact.
• 21:47 But there is a Trinity out there that exists.
• 21:49 The Father glorifies the Son, the Son glorifies and sends the
• 21:52 Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Son, and the Son
• 21:56 glorifies the Father.
• 21:58 And when they work together like that, the three become one,
• 22:02 because it says, “Let them be one: as You and I are
• 22:07 one, Father.”
• 22:08 Jesus Christ makes this statement: “I speak a great
• 22:12 mystery unto you: when the two become one.”
• 22:15 When the two are joined, they become one.
• 22:18 A man and a wife, two separate individuals, become one.
• 22:22 That’s a great mystery.
• 22:24 So now if two can become one and it’s a great mystery, why
• 22:30 couldn’t three?
• 22:31 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• 22:33 And then you add to that what he says here, now listen: “I pray
• 22:38 that they all may be one.”
• 22:42 Now we’re expanding the number a little bit.
• 22:44 “As you and I are one, Father, because you are in me, and I in
• 22:48 you, that they also may be one with us.”
• 22:52 So that’s gettin’ pretty big.
• 22:54 The Creator of the universe lives in us.
• 22:59 How can we fear anything?
• 23:01 I want my temple to be cleansed and righteous, not in my own
• 23:05 righteousness, but I wanna–the temple needs also be holy.
• 23:09 People forget that aspect of it.
• 23:12 Because if it’s not, you know, there’s a time and place, as we
• 23:16 know, that God would withdraw himself.
• 23:19 Our sins separate us from God, right?
• 23:22 My friends, if you’re listening today, God has rescued you.
• 23:27 He has changed your life.
• 23:29 He lives within you.
• 23:30 You have a lot to share with other people.
• 23:33 Open your mouth, and out of that will flow the good things
• 23:37 of God.
• 23:38 Tell them how God has rescued you and how much he means to
• 23:41 you, and be a blessing like Joshua and Caleb are.
• 23:46 ♪♪♪
• 23:56 Joshua: Did you know that the number one “New York Times”
• 23:58 bestselling book is probably the one that’s the most under-read
• 24:02 in today’s society?
• 24:03 Just about every home in America probably has a Bible, but what
• 24:07 do you do with that Bible?
• 24:08 Do you know where yours is?
• 24:09 Is it collecting dust because you’ve hidden all God’s Word in
• 24:11 your heart?
• 24:12 I don’t know if you have, but we’re in a schoolhouse right now
• 24:14 from 1870, and during this time period, most schools couldn’t
• 24:18 even afford to have textbooks.
• 24:20 So what did they use to gain knowledge and information?
• 24:22 How did they educate their students?
• 24:24 A lot of them, like in John Wesley’s time, they learned from
• 24:27 the Bible itself.
• 24:28 They used God’s Word as the tool to educate them on not just
• 24:32 religion but on the concepts that God established on this
• 24:37 planet that he created.
• 24:39 The Bible, God’s Word, that’s so easily to take for granted.
• 24:42 There’s another time period in which they didn’t have that.
• 24:45 Josiah was looking for the law.
• 24:47 He knew there was answers, but to his knowledge at that time,
• 24:50 there were no copies left because they’d all been burned.
• 24:52 What do you do when you don’t know what’s right?
• 24:54 Mike Ferland: You know, Josh, you talk about that, and I think
• 24:58 we have in this day and age, the same in the church.
• 25:01 We have the Bible at our disposal, and more than ever, I
• 25:06 mean, not just in print form, but all the electronics and
• 25:09 everywhere, yet it’s probably the least taught thing in most
• 25:14 churches today, right?
• 25:15 We’re not teaching the Bible, right?
• 25:17 It used to be in schools, it used to be–now in the church,
• 25:20 we’re teaching messages about making people happy and, you
• 25:23 know, why you need that new jet or, you know, pastors getting
• 25:26 out there and holding up the Bible and saying, “This is our
• 25:29 Bible,” and then setting it down and never using it again.
• 25:32 Ryan Economy: And it is our obligation as Christians to
• 25:35 spread the Word, you know, that we are called for the Great
• 25:38 Commission to spread to all nations, to spread the gospel of
• 25:41 Jesus, and Jesus is for all.
• 25:44 He’s not just for Israel, he’s not just for Americans, he’s for
• 25:49 literally everyone, and the worst-case scenario is if you
• 25:53 talk to someone about Jesus and they’re like, “Hey, it’s not my
• 25:56 job,” or “Hey, I don’t care about it.”
• 25:58 The worst thing that happens is that you’re able to talk
• 26:00 about Jesus.
• 26:02 Caleb: And I know the gospel is going forth.
• 26:03 A nation where you’re not allowed to have Bibles,
• 26:07 Iran, for example, Persia, you know, Jesus is appearing to
• 26:11 people and it’s the fastest-growing religion in
• 26:15 Iran, Christianity is.
• 26:17 So they don’t have the Bible, they don’t have discipleship,
• 26:21 they value it, they want it, and they’re trying to get their
• 26:25 hands with broadcasts and through the internet to get
• 26:27 outside that country to get that information that they
• 26:30 don’t have.
• 26:31 And we have it at our disposal, and we don’t use it, and that’s
• 26:34 why the “Bearded Bible Brothers,” so many years ago,
• 26:36 Josh and I started this because of the biblical illiteracy in
• 26:40 the church.
• 26:41 You know, these schoolhouses used to be used as churches to
• 26:44 declare the Word of God, and we have it and we don’t learn it,
• 26:48 so we want to educate the world, we want to educate you with the
• 26:53 Word of God, and we want you to look it up for yourself, not
• 26:56 taking our word for granted but figuring out is what they’re
• 27:00 saying accurate, is it true?
• 27:02 So that you can be educated, so that you can have that Word
• 27:06 living in your heart and you can go to people and tell them
• 27:09 the Word.
• 27:10 And when faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God,
• 27:13 they will come to know Yeshua, and they will be changed, and
• 27:16 they will go out and spread that Word themselves.
• 27:19 And so we thank you for watching this program.
• 27:22 And as you go, sha’alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:25 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 times allotted, but then the book ends up sucking?
• 27:37 Well, this is not that scenario.
• 27:38 This week, we’re offering the book “Josiah and the Last
• 27:41 Reformation,” written by my little brother.
• 27:43 Caleb plays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
• 27:46 givin’ 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.
• 28:05 Consider giving at Levitt.com.
• 28:07 You can also join the Bearded Bible Bonanza to access
• 28:10 additional content at Patreon.com/BeardedBibleBonanza.
• 28:14 Please support our mission to spread the gospel of Yeshua by
• 28:17 subscribing to our social media and sharing our online messages.
• 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.