Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “The Coming Antichrist” (8/8)

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• 00:49 Joshua Colson: We began this series explaining how the last
• 00:51 days of Josiah’s life and the last days of the kingdom of
• 00:54 Judah parallel the last days that we’re in today.
• 00:57 The prophecy of Babylon returning back then, and the
• 01:00 prophecies today, being in Babylon the Great right around
• 01:04 the corner.
• 01:05 Everything in life is lining up.
• 01:07 The stage is set.
• 01:09 Caleb Colson: And guys, we wanna end this series on a warm fuzzy
• 01:12 note, but we can’t.
• 01:13 Joshua: For those of you who don’t know Caleb that well, he
• 01:15 hates happy endings.
• 01:17 So don’t expect a lot of funny from this episode.
• 01:19 It’s gonna be real sad and real somber.
• 01:22 Caleb: Because there’s a great mistake that Josiah made at the
• 01:25 end of his life that not only cost him his life, but brought
• 01:29 about the end of the kingdom of Judah.
• 01:31 And that’s why we came here to Megiddo, the place where it all
• 01:34 began, where his final battle was, and where the final battle
• 01:37 against Satan will occur someday as well.
• 01:47 Joshua: King Solomon built Megiddo as a royal chariot city.
• 01:50 Yes, in disobedience to God who told him not to collect a
• 01:53 cavalry or chariots.
• 01:56 Caleb: Well, obviously, this is completely out of left field and
• 01:59 not appropriate to the story, but Josh and I look pretty cool
• 02:03 in that chariot.
• 02:04 Am I right?
• 02:05 We can totally pull off the Judah Ben-Hur bit.
• 02:16 Joshua: Yet in the stables and the ruins over here, they could
• 02:19 house up to 150 horses.
• 02:21 Caleb: Twenty-six layers of civilization covered this Tel.
• 02:24 It’s not a mountain, it’s a man-made hill.
• 02:27 And you see all around us, there’s ruins of 17 temples.
• 02:31 There’s grain silos that was built by Jeroboam II.
• 02:34 There’s two palaces.
• 02:36 King Ahab even built a water cistern that could bring in
• 02:40 water in case of an enemy that would lay siege around them.
• 02:43 But the most important fact that it was a watch tower.
• 02:46 It stood as a vanguard for all the kings of Israel to look over
• 02:49 at the Via Maris, in case an enemy army was approaching.
• 02:53 Joshua: This is where our story begins.
• 02:56 In the 31st year of Josiah’s reign.
• 02:59 He’s 39 years old and at peace.
• 03:03 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 35:20, “After all this, when Josiah had
• 03:07 set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt went up to fight
• 03:10 at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah marched out to meet
• 03:14 him in battle.”
• 03:20 Joshua: You know, Josiah gets word from his garrison here at
• 03:24 Megiddo that the entire armies of Egypt are headed this way,
• 03:29 and they behind them have Pharaoh Necho and all of Egypt.
• 03:35 What he doesn’t know is that Pharaoh Necho is heading to
• 03:39 Carchemish for one of the greatest battles that that city
• 03:43 in Syria had seen, and it takes place in 605 BC.
• 03:46 Caleb: That’s right.
• 03:48 Egypt had allied to try to save the Assyrian Empire.
• 03:50 And on the other side was Babylon, the Medes, the
• 03:53 Persians, and the Scythians that were contending with them.
• 03:55 A quick history lesson, guys.
• 03:57 Joshua: And by quick, he means put on your Thanksgiving pants
• 04:00 and get relaxed, because the only thing that he likes better
• 04:03 than sad endings is tragic historical endings.
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• 04:20 Caleb: Back at the beginning of Josiah’s reformation, this was
• 04:24 about the time that Jeremiah first began to prophesy.
• 04:28 There’s trouble brewing in the Assyrian Empire.
• 04:31 You had Nabopolassar, who is Nebuchadnezzar’s father, and he
• 04:35 had made an alliance with Media, and the price for this alliance
• 04:39 would be his firstborn son, Nebuchadnezzar, would marry
• 04:42 Amytis, the sister of Cyaxares, the king of Media.
• 04:46 And with this alliance, they fought and threw off the yoke of
• 04:49 Assyria, and Nabopolassar made himself king over Babylon.
• 04:53 For 14 years, Babylon and Assyria, they would fight and
• 04:57 contend back and forth.
• 04:58 But God held the Babylonians at bay, and didn’t allow them to
• 05:04 come and conquer Judah, even though they even wiped
• 05:09 out Nineveh.
• 05:10 The Babylonians came and Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar
• 05:11 wiped out Nineveh in 615 BC, just as the prophet Nahum had
• 05:17 predicted, God still held them off.
• 05:19 Joshua: Little did they know that doomsday was approaching.
• 05:22 As Caleb had said, Babylon and Assyria had been fighting, and
• 05:26 God held off the forces.
• 05:27 As long as Josiah was winning in these fights, he would hold it
• 05:31 off on Judah’s behalf.
• 05:33 But what Josiah didn’t know is that God had sent Necho.
• 05:37 He had sent them to be a blockade to stand against the
• 05:41 forces of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar, and Josiah comes
• 05:44 in without asking God at all and tries to block Necho.
• 05:49 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 35:21, “But Necho sent messages to
• 05:53 him, Josiah, saying, ‘What quarrel is there, king of Judah,
• 05:57 between you and me?
• 05:59 It’s not you I’m attacking at this time, but the house for
• 06:03 which I am at war.
• 06:04 God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with
• 06:07 me, or he will destroy you.'”
• 06:11 Joshua: I’m sure that Josiah is thinking, “How can God speak to
• 06:14 the profane, the unclean, the uncircumcised?”
• 06:16 But, you see, our amazing God has a history of doing
• 06:18 just that.
• 06:20 Josiah had been following the law down to the letter, and I
• 06:23 fear that maybe he had slipped into legalism.
• 06:25 We’ve seen churches today that come out of great sin, and they
• 06:28 grab onto the law and live legalistically instead of in
• 06:30 relationship.
• 06:32 And we’ve seen so many moves of God that have been squelched
• 06:34 because of that same behavior.
• 06:35 Caleb: That’s right.
• 06:37 So we know that Josiah could have consulted a prophet of the
• 06:39 Lord, like the prophet Jeremiah, who at this moment in history
• 06:43 was currently in a standoff with corrupt priests, false prophets
• 06:46 as well.
• 06:48 And even assassins were sent by his own parents trying to kill
• 06:52 him because he spoke the words of the Lord.
• 06:54 So, many rabbis believe, as King Josiah marched out to Megiddo,
• 06:59 that this was when Jeremiah was captured, and whipped 39 times,
• 07:02 and put in stocks in the temple.
• 07:05 Joshua: I’m so glad our parents never sent out assassins on you.
• 07:11 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 35:22: “Josiah, however, would
• 07:15 not turn away from him [Pharaoh Necho], but disguised himself to
• 07:19 engage him in battle.
• 07:21 He would not listen to what Necho had said at God’s command
• 07:25 but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.
• 07:31 Caleb: Guys, Josiah knew he was in the wrong, otherwise he
• 07:35 wouldn’t have disguised himself for battle.
• 07:38 Rabbis have thought about this fierce determination that Josiah
• 07:42 had against Pharaoh Necho, and they believe Leviticus 26:6,
• 07:45 which says, “The sword shall not go through your land,” was his
• 07:48 reasoning behind trying to block him.
• 07:51 I mean, he just cleared out the land of all those pagan temples.
• 07:54 He didn’t want any new ones, you know, like these ruins of the
• 07:57 pagan temples behind me.
• 07:59 And so he goes to try to stop the armies of Pharaoh Necho, and
• 08:04 his pride was what led to his downfall.
• 08:07 Now Scripture says, 2 Chronicles 35:23, “The archers shot King
• 08:12 Josiah, and he told his officers, ‘Take me away.
• 08:15 I am badly wounded.’
• 08:17 So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other
• 08:20 chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.”
• 08:25 Joshua: For such an honorable life, Josiah met such a
• 08:28 tragic end.
• 08:30 Thirty-nine years old.
• 08:31 Guys, I’m in my mid-40s.
• 08:34 I’ve made it longer than he ever did.
• 08:35 For all of the decisions that he made that were right, for all
• 08:38 the times when he found out something was sin, he
• 08:40 immediately put a stop to it.
• 08:42 He messed up one time at Megiddo and he faced his end.
• 08:46 Do you know how many times in my life I’ve sinned, I’ve messed
• 08:49 up, I knew better, and I kept doing things anyway?
• 08:51 And I have the Holy Spirit inside of me just like you do as
• 08:54 a believer.
• 08:55 And yet we still don’t listen to that still small voice every
• 08:57 time as we should.
• 08:59 Caleb: And so with Pharaoh Necho having been slowed down by
• 09:02 Josiah’s army, he finally makes it north to the battle of
• 09:06 Carchemish, and waiting for him is this coming
• 09:08 antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar.
• 09:10 And Nebuchadnezzar is no longer restrained by God because of
• 09:13 Josiah’s death, and he soundly defeats Egypt and their
• 09:18 ally, Assyria.
• 09:19 Assyria has wiped off the face of history.
• 09:21 And Nebuchadnezzar would come and conquer Judah.
• 09:24 But word comes to him that his father died in Babylon, King
• 09:28 Nabopolassar, so he rushes back to Babylon to try to fight with
• 09:32 his brothers to gain the crown.
• 09:34 Caleb: 2 Thessalonians 2:9, “The coming of the lawless one
• 09:38 is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs,
• 09:42 and lying wonders.”
• 09:48 Caleb: Guys, the verses before that passage explain that the
• 09:53 coming of a lawless one is only hindered by the Restrainer.
• 09:56 Now, we know that the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit, the Ruach
• 09:59 Hakodesh, but once he is removed from the earth during the
• 10:03 rapture, we assume, is when the beast will be revealed to
• 10:06 the world.
• 10:07 Joshua: We know that this is coming, but we have a short
• 10:10 period of time in which we can hold that coming back, the
• 10:15 tribulation, that final time of judgment.
• 10:17 Just as God held back Nebuchadnezzar for Josiah and
• 10:22 Judah, because Josiah repented and he cleansed the sin from the
• 10:27 land, God held it back.
• 10:30 And we can have this great revival, this final moment of
• 10:33 God’s outpouring before this tribulation.
• 10:36 If we’ll repent, if we’ll let the Holy Spirit within us rise
• 10:40 up, and we choose God, we can see him move again before this
• 10:46 land will be dripping with the blood of the sins of mankind.
• 10:51 Joshua: 1 Peter 4:17 through 18, “For the time has come
• 10:55 for judgment to begin at the house of God, and if it begins
• 10:59 with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the
• 11:02 gospel of God?
• 11:04 Now, ‘If the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the
• 11:07 ungodly and the sinner appear?'”
• 11:11 Caleb: Judgment is coming. Correction first to his bride.
• 11:14 How can he judge the nations if we fall in the same sins as
• 11:17 the world?
• 11:19 But even before God can judge the nations, he has to judge his
• 11:23 own representatives first, Israel.
• 11:27 Guys, nobody wants to give this message.
• 11:30 Not the church.
• 11:31 The church wants to support Israel 100%, I understand that.
• 11:35 There’s been so much anti-Semitism over the years
• 11:37 that we don’t want to say bad things about Israel.
• 11:39 But you can’t condone anybody 100% of the time, especially
• 11:42 when they’ve fallen into sin.
• 11:44 And judgment is coming.
• 11:46 Babylon the Great is coming.
• 11:48 And we have this short moment of time to repent, or else we don’t
• 11:54 have that revival.
• 11:55 We don’t have that reformation.
• 11:56 I was struggling with God when he first gave us this message.
• 12:00 I was in mourning because I felt his burden come upon me.
• 12:02 It was heavy.
• 12:04 And he gave me his words.
• 12:05 I said, “God, I cannot give these words, because if I give
• 12:09 these words and judgment will come afterwards because they
• 12:11 heard the truth and they rejected your truth.”
• 12:14 And now is the time because we have that moment to repent.
• 12:17 Jeremiah 29:13 says, “You will seek me and find me, when
• 12:23 you will search for me with all your heart.”
• 12:27 Joshua: Josiah appeared to have missed it in his final days.
• 12:31 Maybe he grew complacent.
• 12:33 Maybe he had spent his entire life in the time of an
• 12:36 eight-year-old old boy working, and striving, and fighting for
• 12:41 what was right that he got tired.
• 12:44 Maybe along the way of the fight, he became focused, and
• 12:49 legalistic, and it became mechanical for him.
• 12:53 All he could see was the law, and the rules, and the
• 12:56 daily steps.
• 12:59 But at the end of his life, through everything he had done,
• 13:02 he was judged by that final moment.
• 13:05 He was judged by that one decision that he decided to make
• 13:11 on his own, instead of consulting the Father, like
• 13:14 everything else.
• 13:15 As a nation, America has grown complacent.
• 13:21 But even more so, the body of Christ,
• 13:24 those of us who claim to be his children are the ones to blame
• 13:31 and yet we point the fingers at everybody else.
• 13:34 Every move of God in the history of mankind from the days that
• 13:38 God literally convened with Adam in the garden, we have done
• 13:41 something to try to control it.
• 13:44 Something to try to manage it, and to wrangle it into our
• 13:48 schedules, and our ideas, and the thoughts of how we think God
• 13:51 wanted it to be done.
• 13:53 And every time throughout history, those moves of God have
• 13:57 come to an end because his Spirit said I have to be in
• 14:01 control and yours can’t.
• 14:04 We have a final shot in history for the sake of the people of
• 14:10 Israel, for the sake of the body of Christ to judge ourselves
• 14:15 for once.
• 14:16 To stop pointing the finger at everybody else and say, “You’re
• 14:18 doing what’s wrong, and you’re what’s wrong, and you’re
• 14:20 the reason.”
• 14:22 The problem isn’t saying, “God, what is it I need to change?
• 14:27 Examine my heart and my life, and let me humble myself, and
• 14:32 let me be the first to repent.
• 14:34 Use me first.
• 14:35 Use me last.
• 14:37 Use me in every way that you want.”
• 14:40 If we hope to see more souls up there with him, and less in
• 14:48 eternal darkness, that is our call to action today.
• 14:52 That is what we fight for.
• 14:55 That we humble ourselves and pray, and we turn from our
• 14:57 wicked ways if we have any hope of experiencing his presence and
• 15:02 seeing that change.
• 15:03 Guys, I wanna pray for us right now.
• 15:05 Dear Heavenly Father, I just pray for everyone in the sound
• 15:09 of my voice, everyone that’s ever met you, that’s ever known
• 15:12 you, anyone who’s been resisting your voice.
• 15:14 Lord God, your people, the Jewish people, who you have
• 15:17 fought to save, generation after generation, let them hear your
• 15:22 voice and know that you are Father, let them know Yeshua is
• 15:25 the Messiah.
• 15:27 Dear Father, for the Christian Gentiles, Lord God,
• 15:29 who have accepted your name, but they have grown cold.
• 15:32 We have grown complacent.
• 15:34 We have grown controlling and manipulative of your Word.
• 15:37 Lord God, we repent humbly.
• 15:40 If we say use us again, let our final moment stand with our
• 15:44 face in the sun, staring in the face of our Father, hearing,
• 15:49 “Well done, my good and faithful servant,” and not
• 15:53 looking in the mirror at ourselves, proud of what we’ve
• 15:56 accomplished and who we’ve become.
• 15:57 Lord, may your anointing, Lord God, your Holy Spirit, the Ruach
• 16:03 Hakodesh, flow through every person within the sound of
• 16:06 my voice.
• 16:07 Lord God, purge us clean by your fires.
• 16:10 Let your voice be the most prominent we hear, and the only
• 16:13 we follow, and Lord God use us again, we pray.
• 16:18 Use us to save every soul in the name of Yeshua, we pray.
• 16:23 Amen.
• 16:33 Joshua: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 16:42 Caleb: Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and
• 16:47 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
• 16:51 all your soul, and with all your strength.
• 16:58 Caleb: Anyone familiar with Messianic Jewish ministries have
• 17:01 heard of Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
• 17:04 He is a famous author, writer, speaker of “The Harbinger,” and
• 17:09 he even recently wrote a book called “The Josiah Manifesto” at
• 17:11 the same time that we were giving this message about Josiah
• 17:14 and the last reformation.
• 17:16 Joshua: I love when you see people giving the same message
• 17:17 that you’re giving because it means we listen to God.
• 17:20 You gotta check out what he has to say.
• 17:22 His insight is incredible and very detailed.
• 17:24 Let’s go to him now.
• 17:27 Jonathan Cahn: What if there was a mystery, a template for this
• 17:31 hour that lies behind really everything that’s happening in
• 17:35 our culture, in our world.
• 17:37 Actually, the Lord could have given us this template for
• 17:40 a reason, that there’s actually an answer.
• 17:43 There’s actually a way to overcome it now and in the days
• 17:48 to come.
• 17:50 That’s what I think, why I think the Lord gave all of
• 17:51 us this thing at the same time.
• 17:53 Joshua: So what do you feel led you to write this for this
• 17:56 moment right now?
• 17:57 What was so important about now?
• 17:58 Jonathan: Well, I had just finished writing “The Return of
• 18:01 the Gods” just before this, and that is kind of revealing what’s
• 18:05 happening, you know, and the spirits and the–what’s really
• 18:10 taken over our culture and what we’re all dealing with.
• 18:13 But, you know, as soon as I finished it, it was like, “Lord,
• 18:15 is that okay?
• 18:16 Now you have to give an answer.”
• 18:17 You know, given that, now, the answer.
• 18:19 And actually, it was the day that I finished writing the last
• 18:25 words of “The Return of the Gods” that something happened in
• 18:28 America that’s actually linked to this mystery.
• 18:31 You see, you know, what is the most colossal bad altar that we
• 18:37 have in America?
• 18:39 It was the altar of Roe versus Wade, in which we offered up
• 18:41 sixty million children, which really links to Josiah in so
• 18:45 many ways.
• 18:46 And on the day that I finished “The Return of the Gods,” and I
• 18:49 spoke about the altars, that was the day that that altar
• 18:52 was broken.
• 18:54 And that day began “The Josiah Manifesto.”
• 18:58 So the Lord saying, like, there’s an answer.
• 19:00 When I thought about it, I didn’t plan this, but when I
• 19:02 thought about it, you know, Josiah really was an answer to
• 19:06 the gods of the idols of his time.
• 19:08 He was there.
• 19:09 And so, if you look at the cover of “The Josiah Manifesto,”
• 19:13 you’ll see a broke–this is a broken altar, which was the day
• 19:17 that birthed it, as well.
• 19:18 Now remember, you know, I mean, again, I’m preaching to the
• 19:21 choir, but Josiah, you know, God was about to judge that nation,
• 19:26 and the raising up of one man, the actions of one man,
• 19:30 literally changed the course of that generation and forestalled
• 19:34 the judgment until Josiah was gone.
• 19:37 I mean, and that’s a big– that’s one man being right.
• 19:40 One man turning to God and then doing everything he could to
• 19:43 turn his nation.
• 19:44 The only thing that can save America’s revival–I don’t, you
• 19:47 know, it’s not polit–you know, we have to touch the
• 19:50 political realm.
• 19:52 We have to–we should vote, we should affect the world every
• 19:53 way we can, but in the end, you know, politics can’t save us.
• 19:58 It can help open a door, just like having a righteous king can
• 20:01 help open a door, but without revival, it doesn’t matter.
• 20:04 You know, without turning back to God, without repentance–God
• 20:07 said, “If my people,” and he said, “If they repent, if
• 20:10 they turn.”
• 20:11 So that is the only hope we have, if there is no revival,
• 20:15 then America as we know it is gone.
• 20:18 One of the things the Lord has led me from the beginning, you
• 20:20 know, like when I first wrote “The Harbinger,” that was my
• 20:22 first book, is this parallel between the last days of Israel
• 20:28 and America right now, and that didn’t have a good ending.
• 20:31 And, you know, the thing is that, and if you ask me now, “Do
• 20:34 I see the signs of revival?”
• 20:36 I mean, there are revivals, you know, God bless them.
• 20:40 But as a whole, America has not been turning, I mean, has not
• 20:44 turned back to God, and has not yet done that, and it’s still
• 20:48 falling away.
• 20:49 And even when we’ve had a conservative administration,
• 20:52 that didn’t stop the moral decay or the f–or the indoctrination
• 20:57 of our children, which is the future, away from God.
• 21:01 You know, God is merciful.
• 21:02 We have not seen the destruction at this point, but we need
• 21:06 revival or there will be calamity.
• 21:10 When Roe versus Wade was overturned–and of course, we
• 21:14 know that’s not the end of the issue by a long shot, but it was
• 21:17 the hand of God.
• 21:18 It was gigantic, it was gigantic.
• 21:20 And the thing is that it’s a biblical sign.
• 21:23 It’s the sign of the broken altar.
• 21:25 That’s throughout the Bible.
• 21:26 And it’s not just the sign of the broken altar.
• 21:28 It’s the sign of Josiah, because Josiah’s whole life was linked
• 21:32 to the broken altar.
• 21:34 His very life was prophesied over a broken altar, you know,
• 21:38 hundreds of years before.
• 21:40 And then he, of all kings, was the one who broke the altars.
• 21:43 You know, in ancient times, the sign of revival was not a gospel
• 21:47 crusade tent meeting, which is great, but it was the breaking
• 21:51 of the al–they went up and they broke the altars where they
• 21:53 offered their children, they broke the altars of the gods
• 21:56 they were repenting.
• 21:57 And so it was a sign of revival.
• 21:59 So the Josiah moment is when a nation is on the verge of
• 22:03 judgment on one hand or revival on the other, and it’s one or
• 22:08 the other.
• 22:10 And the thing is that–and then you see that with Josiah, but
• 22:12 it’s–I believe this is a message from God that America is
• 22:15 standing in between those two things, judgment or revival.
• 22:18 If it doesn’t have–without revival, it’s judgment.
• 22:21 And the only thing that can push judgment off is revival, as
• 22:24 in Josiah.
• 22:26 And that really tells us that Josiah–it’s like God is giving
• 22:28 us the the example of Josiah to say this is what’s called for
• 22:32 right now.
• 22:34 This is the Josiah moment.
• 22:35 We have to be Josiahs, you know, for our generation, and how he
• 22:39 was, and he was amazing.
• 22:41 You know, he was born for his generation, and his generation
• 22:45 was made for him.
• 22:46 They needed him.
• 22:47 And so in the same way, we are born for our generation.
• 22:51 We’re not, you know, we’re not supposed to despair, and run,
• 22:54 and hide in the hills.
• 22:55 You know, we are supposed to be–this is our moment.
• 22:58 We–this is why we’re born.
• 22:59 We have a job to do.
• 23:00 You know, we don’t–we can’t despair because we have a job
• 23:03 to do.
• 23:04 So just like Josiah, just do what you know is God–repent,
• 23:07 do whatever you have to do.
• 23:08 You already know it.
• 23:09 Do it today and it will lead you to the destiny for which you
• 23:13 were born and put in your mother’s womb for such a time
• 23:16 as this.
• 23:17 ♪♪♪
• 23:25 Mike Ferland: We know that the United States of America is not
• 23:28 an end-time prophecy.
• 23:31 And so the easy thing to do would be just like,
• 23:33 “Oh well, we’re not an end-time prophecy.
• 23:35 We’re not gonna be here.
• 23:37 Let’s just give up.”
• 23:38 But we really shouldn’t give up because we still have a purpose
• 23:40 and still a time and, in fact, God hasn’t given up on us
• 23:42 because we see even today God is taking,
• 23:45 like, these pastors and leaders who are corrupt and teaching
• 23:50 false doctrine and living messed up lives,
• 23:52 God is removing them from the church.
• 23:54 Not just to punish them, but to actually restore the church and
• 23:58 to build us back up and to give us a platform to be able to go
• 24:01 and to share with people.
• 24:03 And it’s like, so there’s this confusion of like,
• 24:05 “Well, what do we do now?
• 24:07 Does that mean like, you know, we just, like, stop believing?”
• 24:12 No, like, now is the opportunity still to share the gospel to,
• 24:15 like, make an impact on people’s lives.
• 24:17 There’s a certain number that will perish during that
• 24:19 seven-year tribulation, but we can help shrink what number is
• 24:22 there by sharing Jesus with other people.
• 24:27 Ryan Economy: Modern-day Christians is that if it comes
• 24:31 to a moment where a pastor gets removed from the church from
• 24:34 their mistakes or whatever, people are so quick to be on
• 24:38 them, judge them for their actions.
• 24:41 We’re judging them, and we are the ones that are writing the
• 24:45 script and whatnot, but at the end of the time,
• 24:47 it’s not us to be judging, we’re not the ones that should be
• 24:49 judging people.
• 24:51 God’s made things really clear to us that he’s the judge,
• 24:54 not us, and, even in moments of people testing us,
• 24:58 we like to try to step in.
• 25:00 There’s this really awesome Bible verse I got.
• 25:02 Don’t look, it’s from Jude 1 because it’s only one chapter,
• 25:07 and it’s 9.
• 25:08 So during their interaction, “But when the archangel Michael
• 25:12 contended with the devil, was disputing about the body of
• 25:15 Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous
• 25:18 judgment, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you.'”
• 25:23 And I just think that’s such a simple statement that the
• 25:26 archangel is probably working really close with God.
• 25:29 He’s not engaging with judging the devil.
• 25:32 He’s not engaging with arguing with the devil.
• 25:34 He just says, “The Lord rebuke you.”
• 25:37 Caleb: It’s really up to us to really focus on our own lives
• 25:39 and not other people, not to try to pull the splinter out of
• 25:42 their eye.
• 25:43 But the entire theme of this whole series is encapsulated in
• 25:47 1 Peter 4:17-18: “For the time has come for judgment to begin
• 25:51 at the house of God; and if it begins with us first,
• 25:54 what will be the end of those who do not obey the
• 25:57 gospel of God?
• 25:58 Now, ‘If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
• 26:00 Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?'”
• 26:02 So we’re being judged right now as a church, so God can
• 26:05 eventually judge the wicked.
• 26:07 That’s a terrifying thing because the judgment that’s
• 26:09 hitting us is harsh, but it is for our betterment,
• 26:12 for our correction because he loves us.
• 26:14 Joshua: So when I look at the idea of forgiveness,
• 26:17 when I look for the idea of judgment,
• 26:19 I would like to focus on not needing judgment first to
• 26:23 begin with.
• 26:25 The life of Jesus lived perfectly by a law that no other
• 26:27 man in the history of mankind could accomplish for one reason
• 26:31 and one purpose only: to absolve you of your sins.
• 26:37 Whatever you’re clinging on to today,
• 26:40 whatever you’re holding to is your sin that you feel is more
• 26:43 precious than an eternity with the Father,
• 26:46 that you feel is worth Jesus taking another whip on the back,
• 26:51 another strike for you that you find is more valuable,
• 26:54 it is not.
• 26:56 You don’t have to face a judgment one day if you are
• 26:59 willing to humble yourself today and repent and let go the sins
• 27:04 that so easily ensnare you.
• 27:07 Turn from your wicked ways.
• 27:08 When you do all of those things, he’s going to forgive you.
• 27:12 1 John 1:9: “To confess your sins,
• 27:14 he’s faithful and just to forgive you of your sins,
• 27:16 to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.”
• 27:19 Forget about the judgment.
• 27:21 –with repentance.
• 27:23 ♪♪♪
• 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.
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• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.