Caption transcript for Conquest of Canaan: “The Battle of Gibeon” (4/8)

• 00:11 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:15 Joshua Colson: Hey everybody, I'm Joshua.
• 00:16 Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 00:18 Joshua: We're right here. Caleb: We're right here!
• 00:19 Joshua: Where's right here, brother?
• 00:21 Caleb: Tomb of the Prophet Samuel.
• 00:22 Nebi Samuel is behind us.
• 00:24 Joshua: It is him!
• 00:25 Caleb: Tune in to figure out what happens this week
• 00:27 on "Conquest of Canaan."
• 00:28 Joshua: Well, that's gonna be a cool episode.
• 00:30 I've always wanted to see where his tomb was.
• 00:31 ♪♪♪
• 00:41 ♪♪♪
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 Joshua: We're not in the North Bank.
• 00:59 We're not in the East Bank.
• 01:00 South Bank is right out.
• 01:02 We're here in the West Bank, that's right.
• 01:04 This little area that Canaan never owned, or it was never
• 01:08 promised, so they have no rights to it.
• 01:11 Don't get yourself confused because in today's day and age,
• 01:14 this little contested piece of land, smaller than the size of
• 01:17 New Jersey, everybody wants to talk about, everybody wants
• 01:20 to claim.
• 01:21 Everybody wants to verbally attack or physically attack
• 01:24 Israel for laying claim to what God already promised them.
• 01:27 Heck, we even have fake humanitarian organizations known
• 01:30 as United Nations, who sit there all the time with propaganda
• 01:33 against Israel.
• 01:34 Why is it that this tiny piece of land is so fought after?
• 01:37 Caleb: It's a spiritual war, Josh, and it's about the kingdom
• 01:41 of darkness trying to take that which is promised to
• 01:44 God's people.
• 01:45 Now, the good thing is that the kingdom of darkness is hardly
• 01:48 ever in agreement with one another.
• 01:50 There is infighting amongst demons, everyone vying for the
• 01:53 top high place to be the top dog, but, of course, they come
• 01:56 into agreement when it means to destroy their mutual enemy,
• 02:00 which is Israel.
• 02:02 Joshua: I'm just saying I think it could become an issue,
• 02:05 all right, this is not just me saying is,
• 02:07 Yeshua said it in Matthew 12:22 through 28, kingdom
• 02:10 divided against itself can't stand.
• 02:12 Right, he was talking to the Pharisees.
• 02:13 He said, "Look, y'all guys are divided.
• 02:15 You have to have unity."
• 02:16 Half the crew's drinking Coke, half is drinking Coke Zero.
• 02:19 We have to be on the same page, and we know that sugar is not
• 02:21 good for you, and I myself am drinking energy drinks, which is
• 02:23 allowing me to have an exceptional performance.
• 02:25 I just think we got to get on the same page.
• 02:27 Caleb: What does this have to do with what we're doing here?
• 02:29 Joshua: Oh, hydration--unity!
• 02:33 Caleb: That certainly does help, and you look at this time period
• 02:37 we're focusing on, Josh, and in 1406 BC, the Israelites are
• 02:41 coming in, and in Canaan, they used to have the overlords of
• 02:46 Egyptians, their vassals, you know, that told them how much
• 02:49 money they had to give to them, and told them where they could
• 02:52 do what, and put whatever.
• 02:53 The Egyptians were crippled by the Israelites coming out of
• 02:56 Egypt, and now all these independent city states and
• 02:59 kings, they had to figure out what to do with this 2 million
• 03:03 man army of Israelites coming in, and they were popping off
• 03:07 cities left and right like King Sihon and Og.
• 03:10 So they were getting scared, and I believe unity was what they
• 03:13 finally came up with, "Hey guys, let's all join together, and
• 03:16 take out those Israelites."
• 03:17 Joshua: Then it's settled, everyone will start drinking
• 03:19 that stuff in the toilet-- what's it called again?
• 03:21 Caleb: Water?
• 03:22 Joshua: Yes, everyone drinks water, I have spoken.
• 03:27 Caleb: Joshua 9:1, "And it came to pass when all the kings who
• 03:30 were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowlands
• 03:33 and in all the coasts of the great sea toward Lebanon--the
• 03:37 Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the
• 03:39 Hivite, and the Jebusite--heard about it [the destruction of Ai
• 03:43 and Bethel], that they gathered together to fight with Joshua
• 03:46 and Israel with one accord."
• 03:49 Joshua: This is Al Jib.
• 03:50 This is where Gibeah was, somewhere
• 03:53 amidst all these rocks.
• 03:54 Caleb: Well, it's interesting, the Gibeonites were a different
• 03:57 breed than the Canaanites, Perizzites.
• 03:59 They were Hivites, which they were still listed in the nations
• 04:02 that the Israelites had to wipe out, and there are four Hivite
• 04:05 cities in this area.
• 04:07 Gibeah was one of them, and they were known as the royal
• 04:11 chariot cities.
• 04:12 They were powerful.
• 04:14 They had the amazing chariots, they had the horsemen, they had
• 04:18 tons of wealth, and they were some of the most powerful and
• 04:21 violent in the area.
• 04:22 So they were feared above all else.
• 04:23 So it's kind of ironic when you get to the point that they are
• 04:26 afraid of the Israelites coming, and they see all this perpetual
• 04:30 destruction that the Israelites have wrought.
• 04:32 Now they're like, "Are we going to stay in that unified bond
• 04:34 with the other Canaanites, or are we going to try to make
• 04:36 peace with these Israelites that are coming?"
• 04:39 Sgt. Maj. Chaim Malespin: Indeed, you know, when you look
• 04:40 at the blood-spattered canvas of human history, so violent, so
• 04:44 much drama and trauma.
• 04:46 PTSD, all across--and even today.
• 04:49 It's--and, you know, some of my friends that are soldiers, go
• 04:52 through extreme PTSD, can't sleep at night.
• 04:54 But I just think of all the way back to Canaan.
• 04:58 We're in the land of Canaan, and this Gibeon in Judea and
• 05:01 Samaria means kind of little hill in--some call it the West
• 05:04 Bank, some call it Judea and Samaria.
• 05:06 Israel Hanna: So amazing that here the Gibeonites, one of the
• 05:08 most powerful tribe in the area, wants to submit unknowingly, not
• 05:14 only to Israel, but to the God of Israel, as servants, and when
• 05:18 you--they're about to go make an agreement to do that, as
• 05:21 powerful as they are.
• 05:22 So they humbled themselves, unlike Pharaoh.
• 05:24 Sgt. Maj. Malespin: I can't wait for them to uncover all this,
• 05:26 and see what's under our feet.
• 05:29 Caleb: Joshua 9:3 through 4, "But when the inhabitants of
• 05:32 Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, they
• 05:36 worked craftily, and went and pretended to be ambassadors.
• 05:40 And they went to Joshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him
• 05:43 and to the men of Israel, 'We have come from a far country;
• 05:47 now therefore, make a covenant with us.'"
• 05:53 Joshua: Oh, this is pretty cool.
• 05:55 You know, in a world full of lemmings, I do have to applaud
• 05:59 the Gibeonites for coming up with a different plan.
• 06:02 You know, you look around that time period, and everybody's
• 06:03 like, "Oh wait, the Israelites, they got a God that's
• 06:06 really strong.
• 06:07 Let's all group up together, and then there's no way he can
• 06:09 destroy all of us," and then they get destroyed.
• 06:11 The Gibeonites thought, "They have--what about this?
• 06:14 What if we pretend to love their God and trick them, and then we
• 06:19 kill them once they trust us."
• 06:21 When they go to Joshua, well now, that's the plan.
• 06:23 They pretend to be weary travelers.
• 06:26 Caleb: They showed evidence of that.
• 06:27 They showed worn out sandals, old moldy bread, and they showed
• 06:31 their wine skins that were all parched.
• 06:34 Guys, we're in a winery right now.
• 06:36 See all these holes?
• 06:37 There's 38 of these that's been discovered around Gibeah.
• 06:40 Gibeah was famous for their wine.
• 06:42 They say something like 40,000 gallons each of the capacity of
• 06:46 these that held of a lot of wine.
• 06:48 They would age them down here, so that's a lot of wine.
• 06:50 Joshua: You keep your straw out of that vat, brother.
• 06:52 Caleb: Joshua 9:22 through 23, "Then Joshua called for them
• 06:55 (the Gibeonites), and he spoke to them, saying, 'Why have you
• 06:59 deceived us, saying, "We are very far from you," when you
• 07:02 dwell near us?
• 07:03 Now therefore, you are cursed, and none of you shall be freed
• 07:06 from being slaves woodcutters and water carriers for the house
• 07:10 of my God.'"
• 07:12 Israel: So back in the day, even in America, when you shook
• 07:14 hands, you made a covenant with that person, like that, you
• 07:17 know, and you kept your word, and there was a time when
• 07:20 business was done like that, but keeping your word, even under
• 07:23 difficult situations where you think, "Oh my goodness, have I
• 07:27 made a mistake here?"
• 07:28 Caleb: And they made the covenant in the name of God.
• 07:30 They made sure in the name of God.
• 07:32 So even though God told them not to do it, they broke
• 07:34 God's commands.
• 07:36 Now God was gonna have to back them up, you know.
• 07:38 So God--it shows how much honor there was in keeping your word.
• 07:42 Your word is your bond.
• 07:43 Caleb: Numbers 30:1 through 2, "Moses said to the heads of the
• 07:46 tribes of Israel: 'This is what the Lord commands: When a man
• 07:50 makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a
• 07:53 pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything
• 07:57 he said.'"
• 07:58 Caleb: Well, it's interesting, in 2 Samuel 21:1 through 11, God
• 08:03 had to avenge the curse that Saul established by breaking the
• 08:09 covenant with the Gibeonites.
• 08:10 God was gonna back it up.
• 08:12 So three years of famine in Israel, David's like, "What's
• 08:14 going on, God?"
• 08:15 He said the house of Saul was bloody house.
• 08:18 He tried to kill off the Gibeonites.
• 08:20 So this is what David had to do.
• 08:23 He had to take seven of Saul's relatives, but he spares,
• 08:26 obviously, for the sake of Jonathan's relationship
• 08:30 with him, the descendant of Jonathan, takes seven
• 08:32 of his male relatives, hands them over to the
• 08:34 Gibeonites, they kill them, and lay out their dead bodies
• 08:38 before the Lord so that the curse can be broken, 'cause that
• 08:41 is how important the word of your covenant means to God, that
• 08:46 he will always back it up.
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• 09:18 Caleb: Our resource for this program, the book, "The
• 09:21 Mountains of Israel: the Bible and the West Bank" by
• 09:24 Norma Archbold.
• 09:25 A profound ignorance exists today concerning the land of
• 09:28 Israel, thanks to the false picture presented by news media.
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• 09:47 of Israel."
• 09:51 Caleb: Joshua 10:3 through 5, "Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of
• 09:55 Jerusalem sent to Hoham King of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth,
• 10:00 Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
• 10:04 'Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has
• 10:08 made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.'
• 10:11 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
• 10:14 the King of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
• 10:18 and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and
• 10:21 all their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war
• 10:25 against it."
• 10:26 Joshua: Gibeonites are in a bad situation.
• 10:27 Now, they're pretty tough dudes on their own, but the Amorites,
• 10:30 there's a whole bunch more of them, and they're threatening
• 10:32 these dudes, and so the Gibeonites are like, "Hey, I
• 10:35 could use Joshua's help on this one.
• 10:37 We gotta get Josh to help us," and so they're sending out some
• 10:39 guys like, "Quick, go ask Josh.
• 10:41 Can he come over here?
• 10:42 I've seen his beard. I've seen his bicep.
• 10:43 This man and his army, he can help us."
• 10:45 Caleb: That's the big question.
• 10:47 You know, after that deception, is Joshua gonna answer the call?
• 10:50 Well, we came here.
• 10:51 This is a high place, the high place of Gibeon in the past, and
• 10:55 you see right now there's ruins of a mosque.
• 10:57 Well, it's a modern mosque that was built in a modern synagogue.
• 11:02 They're like split together.
• 11:03 They're one in the same building, and they were built on
• 11:06 top of a crusader church, which was built on top of a Byzantine
• 11:10 church, which was built on top of Roman ruins, which was built
• 11:14 on top of Hasmonean ruins, which was built on top of the place
• 11:17 where the tabernacle once stood, and now it's believed that this
• 11:21 is the tomb of the prophet Samuel.
• 11:23 Sgt. Maj. Malespin: You think when the Crusaders show up here
• 11:25 in 1099 out of England, and the great Richard the Lionheart, and
• 11:31 then I guess Robin Hood's over there, whatever, the whole
• 11:33 story, and so they show up here, and, you know, they stop here,
• 11:37 and they have a moment of weeping, and of tears of joy,
• 11:40 and they call it Mount Joy, this prophet Samuel's place where the
• 11:44 Ark of the Covenant stood, 'cause they're gazing at
• 11:46 Jerusalem, and they're just so overcome with joy, and they
• 11:50 prayed, and of course, they set up this thing.
• 11:52 Caleb: Joshua 10:7 through 9, "So Joshua ascended from Gilgal,
• 11:57 he and all the people were with him, and all the mighty men
• 12:00 of valor.
• 12:01 And the Lord said to Joshua, 'Do not fear them, for I have
• 12:04 delivered them into your hand; Not a man of them shall stand
• 12:08 before you.'
• 12:09 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all
• 12:12 night from Gilgal."
• 12:14 Joshua: That puts Josh in a bad way, right?
• 12:16 He's in charge of a lot of people.
• 12:17 These guys just totally disrespected him, and in fact,
• 12:20 he kind of, you know, mouthed off a little bit, saying,
• 12:23 "There's gonna be curses on you.
• 12:24 Look at this," and so now like, three days later or something
• 12:27 like that, they're like, "Please help us.
• 12:29 We're so sorry."
• 12:30 It's a rough position to be in as leader when you're having
• 12:32 these things because you're torn between having the character of
• 12:35 God, and doing what he wants, and then having your human, you
• 12:38 know, emotions go, but no, they cannot be trusted, but God
• 12:42 assures him, keep your word.
• 12:43 Caleb: It wasn't an easy word to keep because they were at
• 12:46 Gilgal, which is 900 feet below sea level, 30 miles from here.
• 12:51 They had to march through the night, the scripture said, up to
• 12:54 2,400 feet above sea level.
• 12:56 We're at 3,000 ft above sea level, and, you know, Google
• 13:00 Maps told me it was going to take 10 hours for me to march
• 13:02 to Gilgal.
• 13:03 I don't like that, but they stayed faithful after being
• 13:05 awake for 24 hours, to continue through the night, till they're
• 13:09 36 hours awake, to show up to fight a massive battle.
• 13:12 Sgt. Maj. Malespin: Right, not a burger and a relax.
• 13:14 It's a battle to fight.
• 13:16 I mean, I had a very similar experience.
• 13:18 In some ways I could identify with Joshua, and I would repeat
• 13:20 that to myself, Joshua's words, which is really Moses's
• 13:24 challenge, "Be strong and very courageous."
• 13:26 In Hebrew, chazak v'ematz.
• 13:28 Joshua: The funny thing is, no matter what the generation, and
• 13:30 no matter what's stacked against you, the one thing between the
• 13:34 success or the failure is the decision.
• 13:37 It's the one choice.
• 13:38 Caleb: Joshua 10:10 through 11, "So the Lord routed them [the
• 13:42 Amorite kings]
• 13:43 before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter of Gibeon,
• 13:46 chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck
• 13:49 them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
• 13:51 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the
• 13:55 descent of 'Beth Horon,' that the Lord cast down large
• 13:58 hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died.
• 14:02 There were more who died from the hailstones than the children
• 14:06 of Israel killed with the sword."
• 14:09 Caleb: All right guys, the Israelites are now chasing these
• 14:13 Amorite kings.
• 14:14 You know, they were thrown into confusion, chaos, like God
• 14:17 always does, throws the enemy into confusion.
• 14:19 Now, Al Jib behind me, you know, the area of Gibeah, and way off
• 14:23 in the distance, that's where the entrance to the Valley of
• 14:25 Ayalon is, and they chased them that way, and they thought they
• 14:28 were going to get to their cities in time to be protected.
• 14:31 It was a cross-country chase, after the Israelites just hiked
• 14:35 30 miles in the middle of the night.
• 14:37 They were marching, and now they have to chase them further, and
• 14:39 that's a 20 mile long valley, that's crazy.
• 14:42 Sgt. Maj. Malespin: I mean, do you realize that God helped them
• 14:44 yet again?
• 14:45 I mean, the sun hadn't stood still yet.
• 14:47 This is beforehand, right, but this is where God sends
• 14:49 hailstones, and if you look at the Hebrew, which is
• 14:53 interesting, it doesn't say barad.
• 14:55 Whenever we have hail, sometimes--very
• 14:56 rare we get hail in Israel.
• 14:57 Anyway, that's a miracle in and of itself, okay, but it
• 15:01 wasn't hailstones.
• 15:02 The word barad is hail
• 15:03 but then abanim is literally rocks.
• 15:06 It could be--it could have been a meteor shower, like rocks
• 15:09 mingled with fire, like an end of days scenario, hitting these
• 15:13 five Amorite kings and all their armies so that we can have
• 15:17 victory, and have aliyah victory as we're entering the land,
• 15:20 making aliyah.
• 15:21 People forget that God is gonna do signs in the heavens again.
• 15:25 Joshua: What makes this moment so special in my mind, we hear
• 15:28 stories like this throughout history, from your story, and
• 15:30 everybody else, where God shows up, God makes a choice, God
• 15:33 intervenes, but if you look in Joshua 10:14, it specifically
• 15:37 says never was there a time before or after in history that
• 15:42 God listened to a human.
• 15:43 Caleb: Joshua 10:12 through 13, "On the day the Lord gave the
• 15:47 Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence
• 15:50 of Israel: 'Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over
• 15:55 the Valley of Aijalon.'
• 15:56 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation
• 16:00 avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the book
• 16:03 of Jashar.
• 16:04 The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down
• 16:07 about a full day.
• 16:08 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when
• 16:12 the Lord listened to a human being.
• 16:14 Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!"
• 16:18 Caleb: He's got the sun and moon.
• 16:20 There we go.
• 16:21 Joshua: Get it done. I'm sorry.
• 16:24 Well, I can see how that would be a little overwhelming.
• 16:28 Caleb: Well, obviously it wasn't Joshua doing it within his own
• 16:31 power, and this is another one of those things that backs up
• 16:36 the Bible story.
• 16:37 We have historical accounts throughout many civilizations of
• 16:42 the long day, called Joshua's, you know, extended day, and so
• 16:46 Emperor Yeo of China chronicled this long day, and he thought it
• 16:50 was an omen.
• 16:52 We have accounts with Herodotus, who met with these Egyptian
• 16:56 priests, and they showed him the hieroglyphs of the extended day
• 16:59 that the Egyptians saw.
• 17:00 We have Babylonian counts.
• 17:02 Inca, Maya, you know, all these ancient civilizations, they saw
• 17:05 this long day, and they thought it was a bad omen.
• 17:08 Why did they think it?
• 17:09 Because they worshiped the sun and moon goddess, just like
• 17:12 the Canaanites.
• 17:13 So imagine being the Canaanites.
• 17:15 You're seeing that this God, Yahweh, holds more power than
• 17:18 your son and moon god, and they knew things were bad for them.
• 17:21 I mean, no god had ever done that before in history, but here
• 17:24 the one true God does that, and imagine, this is God upholding
• 17:29 the word of his power.
• 17:31 I don't know how he did it scientifically with the laws of
• 17:33 physics, or whatever he did, but he cared about his covenant so
• 17:37 much with the Jewish people that he was willing to freeze time
• 17:40 itself for their sake, for their victory.
• 17:42 Joshua: It's a shame that we don't have any more sources to
• 17:44 validate that this actually happened, you know.
• 17:46 We only have every civilization that was around.
• 17:48 Caleb: Joshua 10:20, "So the Lord and the Israelites defeated
• 17:52 them completely, but a few survivors managed to reach their
• 17:55 fortified cities."
• 17:56 Verse 22 to 25, "Joshua said, 'Open the mouth of the cave and
• 18:01 bring those five kings out to me.'
• 18:03 So they brought the five kings out of the cave--the kings of
• 18:06 Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
• 18:09 When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all
• 18:12 the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come
• 18:15 with him, 'Come here and put your feet on the necks of
• 18:18 these kings.'
• 18:19 So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks.
• 18:22 Joshua said to them, 'Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
• 18:25 Be strong and courageous.
• 18:27 This is what the Lord will do to all of the enemies you are going
• 18:31 to fight.'"
• 18:32 Joshua: I love this epiphany that Joshua finally has after
• 18:36 the sun stands still, they win the battle, the moon
• 18:38 stands still.
• 18:39 I mean, that's gotta be a confidence builder for anybody,
• 18:42 but it wasn't just that it was a confidence builder for this
• 18:44 one battle.
• 18:45 He finally had the epiphany that he had nothing to fear.
• 18:50 Satan uses fear as his primary mode to keep us outside of the
• 18:57 Father's will, and why is fear so dangerous to us?
• 19:02 Because fear is the antithesis of love, and the Father is love.
• 19:07 It isn't that he brings love or he gives love.
• 19:09 He is love, and so if you're operating out of fear, you
• 19:12 cannot be in love, and henceforth you cannot be in the
• 19:15 Father, and he said, "No, my
• 19:17 perfect love casts out all fear."
• 19:19 That's not what he said in the moment, but what he realized
• 19:21 right now--what Joshua realizes is that I don't have anything to
• 19:24 worry about because the Father has put Satan's neck underneath
• 19:29 my feet, and if he's done it for me, he's gonna do it for my
• 19:32 commanders, and he's gonna do it for every single person in
• 19:34 Israel, and as a good leader does, he wanted to grab all his
• 19:37 boys who were in charge, like, "All right, regroup, new plan.
• 19:41 God puts neck down, neck goes here, foot goes here, step, and
• 19:46 done, and that's how simple it is.
• 19:47 Stop worrying about your idea, how we have to do all this.
• 19:51 That's how it's gonna work."
• 19:52 Caleb: When I look at this, guys, what I see a picture that
• 19:56 we can obviously apply to our lives today, is that God
• 20:00 originally told the Israelites to wipe out everyone in Canaan.
• 20:02 That included these Hivites, the Gibeonites, but because of
• 20:06 Joshua's word of promise, God had to back up Joshua's
• 20:08 covenant and his word.
• 20:10 So now these Hivites are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel,
• 20:15 and in the future, they end up becoming some of the most loyal
• 20:19 to Yahweh, to the God of Israel, when the other Israelites are
• 20:22 falling into sin, and so I think that's what God wants to do
• 20:25 today to all people.
• 20:27 We're not anti-Palestinians or Jordanians, Egyptians here.
• 20:30 We are pro-God's covenant promise to Israel, and those
• 20:35 people can be grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel.
• 20:37 That means you can live together, we can be friends, we
• 20:40 can be family, but you have to back up that first part.
• 20:43 Accept Yeshua, believe his promise,
• 20:46 and then we're all family.
• 20:47 Caleb: Romans 16:20, "The God of peace will crush Satan under
• 20:51 your feet shortly."
• 20:53 Caleb: Man, what a story, Josh.
• 20:55 You know, I think it's time to go into the phase where we talk
• 20:57 about Satan's plans throughout history to conquer Canaan.
• 21:01 Last week we talked about the Assyrian Empire, and they
• 21:03 dispossessed the ten tribes.
• 21:05 It was awful.
• 21:06 This week, Babylon.
• 21:08 Joshua: Oh man, that's a really bad one too.
• 21:10 We're gonna have to head back to Jerusalem for that one.
• 21:11 Caleb: Well, it's easy, 'cause Jerusalem is right there.
• 21:14 Joshua: Oh yeah!
• 21:15 Caleb: Jeremiah 27:6 through 7, "Now I will give all your
• 21:18 countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of
• 21:21 Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.
• 21:25 All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until
• 21:29 the time for his land comes; then many nations and great
• 21:33 kings will subjugate him."
• 21:35 Caleb: The neo-Babylonian Empire rose from the ashes.
• 21:39 It was actually Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar's father, who
• 21:43 wanted to bring Babylon back to the greatness of a former
• 21:46 Babylonian Empire.
• 21:48 Everyone knew how strong and powerful it was back in the day,
• 21:51 of course, around the time of Nimrod, but it had seen its
• 21:54 share of difficulties.
• 21:56 In fact, at this moment in time, Assyria ruled most of the known
• 21:59 world, and it held Babylon in subjugation, and they
• 22:02 desperately wanted to be free.
• 22:05 What happens is Nabopolassar joins an alliance with the
• 22:08 Medes, marrying off his son Nebuchadnezzar so that they can
• 22:11 gather a large army and create a rebellion, which succeeds.
• 22:15 It ends up concluding in 612 BC at the Battle of Nineveh, where
• 22:19 he finally decimates the Assyrian army once and for all.
• 22:23 Then Babylon starts to conquer all the regions of Assyria,
• 22:27 taking over most of the known world.
• 22:29 It would come to Judah territory much later in time, but thanks
• 22:33 to the obedience of King Josiah, God held him off, staved him off
• 22:38 long enough until Josiah's death, and then comes Babylon to
• 22:42 subjugate the Jewish people.
• 22:44 Joshua: That's why we returned here to Jerusalem, for the
• 22:47 ultimate showdown of showdowns, a 30-month siege of which
• 22:50 Babylon would finally overtake, finally storm the walls, and
• 22:55 most of all, the temple mount.
• 22:57 Joshua: Jeremiah 25:11 through 12, "'This whole country will
• 23:00 become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the
• 23:03 king of Babylon seventy years.
• 23:05 But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the
• 23:08 king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for
• 23:12 their guilt,' declares the Lord, 'and will make it
• 23:14 desolate forever.'"
• 23:16 Caleb: Now, during the short time that Babylon would control
• 23:18 the known world, they made several advancements in their
• 23:22 dominating strategy, if you will.
• 23:24 You know, before the Assyrian Empire, they would take nations,
• 23:27 and they would resettle them into Assyrian lands.
• 23:30 Babylon did that, of course.
• 23:31 They took the Israelites or the Judeans captive, and resettled
• 23:35 them in regions in Babylon.
• 23:37 They installed vassal kings to rule in those territory, and
• 23:40 moved Babylonians in those territory to maintain loyalty,
• 23:43 even though there's a small fraction of Jews that did stay
• 23:46 behind, but what they--really ingenious method that
• 23:50 Nebuchadnezzar instituted, was he wanted to take the princes,
• 23:55 the royalty, and the people of the Jews, take the best of the
• 24:00 best to Babylon, and program them, if you will.
• 24:04 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Belshazzar, those were
• 24:08 Babylonian names given to Daniel, Hananiah, Azariah, and
• 24:11 Mishael, and this was all part of teaching them the Babylonian
• 24:16 language, teaching them the customs.
• 24:19 They would eat the food, they would learn the mannerisms, they
• 24:22 would essentially become Babylonian, and thus they would
• 24:25 have these new loyal vassals that would maintain and never
• 24:30 rebel against their rule, and those kings that had their
• 24:34 princes taken from them, they were left behind.
• 24:36 They didn't want something to happen to their children, so
• 24:38 they maintained their loyalty to the people of Babylon, and it
• 24:41 all seemed like a very good plan for the time being, if God had
• 24:45 not said, "Time has run out on you, Babylon," and ends up
• 24:48 turning the the tables on the kingdom, which we'll know
• 24:52 happened just many decades later.
• 24:55 Caleb: Revelation 17:3 and 5, "Then the angel carried me away
• 24:58 in the Spirit into a wilderness.
• 25:00 There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered
• 25:04 with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
• 25:08 The name written on her forehead was a mystery: babylon the great
• 25:11 - the mother of prostitutes - and of the abominations of
• 25:14 the earth."
• 25:15 Caleb: Let's just say Satan and this third and final spiritual
• 25:19 babylon the great will once again try to take
• 25:21 over Jerusalem.
• 25:23 It's a territory he always wants.
• 25:24 Joshua: He wants this territory, yes.
• 25:26 He wants to take over the Promised Land, but what he
• 25:28 really wants is the Temple Mount.
• 25:30 We believe the Temple Mount right there, the site of Mount
• 25:33 Moriah, the original site of Eden, right,
• 25:35 the connection, the gateway, the portal of heaven on earth,
• 25:39 that that spot, the spot where he could go up to be in heaven
• 25:42 where he once was, but he can't, but that's the spot that he
• 25:45 wants, and that's why he covets this area, and he's willing to
• 25:48 do anything to get it because that spot right there
• 25:51 is supernatural.
• 25:55 Caleb: It's the center of the earth, and he knows it, and all
• 25:59 the antichrist throughout history have known it, whether
• 26:01 it was Sennacherib or Nebuchadnezzar, Amenhotep II.
• 26:04 All of these people wanted the territory of Canaan proper, but
• 26:09 Mount Moriah, Satan knows that's where Abraham nearly offered his
• 26:14 son Isaac as a sacrifice, and he knew the prophecy concerning all
• 26:17 this would be fulfilled one day.
• 26:19 He didn't quite know exactly what it meant and how, but it
• 26:22 all points back to his original sin of pride and rebellion and
• 26:26 his desire to sit upon the highest mountain.
• 26:29 Caleb: Isaiah 14:12 through 14, "How you are fallen from heaven,
• 26:33 O Lucifer, son of the morning!
• 26:35 How you are cut down to the ground,
• 26:37 You who weakened the nations!
• 26:39 For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I
• 26:42 will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on
• 26:45 the mount of congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I
• 26:48 will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the
• 26:51 Most High.'"
• 26:52 Caleb: Satan will never stop trying to ascend the mountain of
• 26:56 God, even in the future, but we know what happens.
• 26:59 We know the end of a story.
• 27:01 If you don't know, you can flip to the end of a book or tune to
• 27:04 our past series called "Roadmap to Armageddon," where we lay out
• 27:08 the chronological order of events that lead to the end
• 27:11 of time.
• 27:12 Joshua: This show has one specific purpose and one
• 27:15 purpose only, and that is to lead as many people to Yeshua
• 27:18 before the end of times as possible.
• 27:21 You see, once that happens, once he comes back for his bride,
• 27:24 it's too late.
• 27:26 It's your time today.
• 27:27 Also, God's called some of you to donate financially.
• 27:30 This ministry, our ministry together, we are working on all
• 27:34 of this based off of what you guys do.
• 27:37 So it's time right now to make a choice what you're gonna do for
• 27:39 eternity, whether you are going to be a part or whether you're
• 27:42 gonna sit on the sidelines and watch the action happen, but I
• 27:44 promise you this, when it's all said and done, you want to hear,
• 27:47 "Well done my good and faithful servant," and all that takes is
• 27:50 you being faithful to whatever he's called you to do.
• 27:52 Check out next week's episode.
• 27:53 When it comes out, we're gonna be visiting Hatzor.
• 27:56 I never pronounce it right, but I never pronounce
• 27:58 anything right.
• 27:59 So until then we say!
• 28:01 Caleb: Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 28:03 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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• 28:26 and as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.