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• 00:08 This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.
• 00:14 Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse
• 00:18 deceiving and being deceived.
• 00:21 But continue in the Holy Scriptures
• 00:24 which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
• 00:28 through faith in Christ Jesus.
• 00:45 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 00:46 I'm Myles Weiss
• 00:47 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 00:49 And today we have a program regarding Israel in Prophecy.
• 00:53 You know, Israel is a tiny nation
• 00:56 but God has set it forth for Himself.
• 00:59 And He also set it forth for the Jewish people
• 01:01 to be a light to the nations.
• 01:04 And if people have a problem with that
• 01:06 they have a problem with the God of the Bible and God Himself.
• 01:09 That's really good
• 01:11 because in all the world there is a nation, Israel;
• 01:13 and in all of Israel there is a city, Jerusalem;
• 01:16 and in all of Jerusalem there is a mountain, Mount Moriah;
• 01:19 and in all of Mount Moriah there is "HaMakom"... "The Place".
• 01:22 That is the "Holy of Holies."
• 01:24 It's where Abraham brought Isaac.
• 01:27 It's where the threshing floor of Ornan was bought by David.
• 01:29 And it is the central place
• 01:31 where all of history is pointing to.
• 01:34 And at the same time that history is pointing to that
• 01:37 the nations and the surrounding nations
• 01:39 have set themselves against Jerusalem.
• 01:41 Zechariah told us it would happen.
• 01:42 In Zechariah 9 he says
• 01:44 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 01:48 "All nations have set themselves against Jerusalem".
• 01:51 And we're coming to that day...
• 01:53 we're seeing it set up.
• 01:54 We're so glad that God is on the throne
• 01:57 that He is in charge of the end times
• 01:59 that He is in charge of Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
• 02:02 So we've got an exciting program.
• 02:03 Let's go to our panel of experts
• 02:06 that are going to talk to you about the end times
• 02:08 and the centrality of Israel and Jerusalem.
• 02:12 You would think with so much of end time Bible prophecy
• 02:15 being fulfilled right before our eyes in this generation
• 02:18 particularly with the re-gathering of Israel
• 02:20 which is one of the main subjects in Bible prophecy
• 02:22 why is it that so much of the church
• 02:25 is completely clueless on these things?
• 02:27 You know that really breaks my heart I will be honest with you.
• 02:30 I really think it's because of a lack of knowledge.
• 02:33 You know many churches, pastors at large don't teach Bible prophecy
• 02:39 so therefore if they don't understand
• 02:41 the Biblical significance of Israel from scripture
• 02:43 they won't have an understanding of Israel.
• 02:46 Now when we talk about the "New Covenant"
• 02:49 the problem is that many Christians assume
• 02:51 in calling the"New Testament" the "New Covenant"
• 02:54 that everything is about the church,
• 02:56 everything is about Christianity;
• 02:59 anything Jewish has been expunged or it's been fulfilled
• 03:03 and it's over,
• 03:05 that the "New Covenant" now has only the spiritual aspects.
• 03:07 The idea of the Land,
• 03:09 the idea of blessings in the Land,
• 03:11 the idea of a re-built Temple,
• 03:13 the idea of a restored Priesthood,
• 03:15 the idea of even the restored changes to nature
• 03:19 and all the harmony that is presented in texts like Isaiah and Zechariah and many others
• 03:23 is just meant to be understood as a type of hyperbole
• 03:28 something that's an exaggerated form of encouragement.
• 03:30 Allegory
• 03:32 Allegories are the term and of course but we don't see that.
• 03:35 And when we come to the text it's to be understood literally.
• 03:38 It says "beating their swords into plowshares"
• 03:42 "and their spears into pruning hooks".
• 03:44 We don't see an end to war and don't see any beginning to war.
• 03:48 Every "Christian Nation" so-called
• 03:50 has to prepare for war,
• 03:51 has to be equipped for that.
• 03:53 We have spiritual warfare within the Church.
• 03:55 Satan is to be bound during this time of the kingdom.
• 03:59 He's not a bound today.
• 04:01 He is very loose...very active
• 04:02 For sure
• 04:05 As one person said, "he's alive and well on planet earth".
• 04:08 And the Jewish people and the Jewish Nation State of Israel is the subject of his attack...
• 04:14 the main focal point of that attack.
• 04:19 The scriptures teach that in the latter days
• 04:21 that Jerusalem will become a cup of trembling.
• 04:23 In other words it would be a burden to the world.
• 04:27 I really believe that some of the hatred we see toward Israel...
• 04:30 some of the angst against them
• 04:33 is really Biblical.
• 04:35 We know the world wants peace..
• 04:37 they blamed everything on Israel
• 04:40 saying that if we just only stabilize the region
• 04:43 because if you make peace in Israel
• 04:45 the world would be a better world.
• 04:47 But they don't understand
• 04:50 that the only way Israel will experience a lasting peace is when Messiah is on that throne.
• 04:52 The Word of God commands us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem
• 04:55 and see I believe this is what every Christian should do.
• 04:57 We need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 04:59 As we pray that prayer
• 05:00 we're literally praying for Messiah to come back.
• 05:02 I believe the unstableness of that region is by God's design
• 05:06 because He's going to bring glory to His Son.
• 05:09 No man...no president can bring peace to the region.
• 05:12 I believe it really tells a story
• 05:15 of why there is such hatred for Israel from the very beginning
• 05:18 and why the hatred is built to the point it has at this point in history
• 05:26 and where it's all taking us.
• 05:28 Of course in general terms we who study Bible prophecy know
• 05:30 where that all is taking us.
• 05:33 But this kind of gets into the details
• 05:36 historically and in modernity as to what it's all about.
• 05:39 The hatred...
• 05:40 why the intense hatred
• 05:42 not only of Israel's immediately surrounding neighbors
• 05:47 but the hatred that is building in the entire world community against Israel which is...
• 05:53 If you don't understand Bible prophecy
• 05:55 where it's been,
• 05:56 where we are now
• 05:57 and where is it going
• 05:59 from a Biblical prophecy perspective
• 06:03 then the average person or most people have no idea of what it's all about.
• 06:08 And they see Israel as the true burdensome stone as it says in Zechariah chapter 12.
• 06:13 It's getting back to that hatred towards Israel
• 06:16 which is a later day prophecy...
• 06:18 it's a sign of the time.
• 06:20 The Bible talks about all nations...
• 06:21 Zechariah the prophecy...
• 06:24 all nations would eventually come against Israel
• 06:25 even America.
• 06:27 And as I see those things happening my heart is saddened
• 06:31 but I understand it's also prophetic
• 06:35 and it's giving us an indication that Jesus is coming back.
• 06:37 Amen
• 06:39 It's very soon you know.
• 06:41 I think we're seeing America starting to turn against Israel
• 06:45 with this current administration
• 06:47 It's sad...it's grievous.
• 06:49 Now on the other side of that coin what's even worse though,
• 06:52 it's in the church as well.
• 06:54 We have replacement theology...
• 06:56 preachers, our teachers, our churches
• 06:59 where they believe that the church has replaced Israel
• 07:02 which I don't believe, it's not Biblical.
• 07:04 You know I've said many times
• 07:06 if God doesn't fulfill the prophecies
• 07:09 that He has physically promised towards the nation of Israel
• 07:12 we might as well get rid of our Bible.
• 07:14 There are Bible prophecies that God has specifically given
• 07:17 on the land, on the people, on the nation of Israel
• 07:21 that must come to pass.
• 07:23 And again, as we see these prophecies come to pass,
• 07:25 to me it proves the validity of scripture.
• 07:28 When I see Israel as a nation I'm excited
• 07:30 because God said that she would be a nation again.
• 07:33 1948...we know the story.
• 07:35 When Israel became a nation she was rebirthed.
• 07:37 National Geographic had to change its maps
• 07:42 to call it by its Biblical name.
• 07:45 Every time CNN or FOX News or any of these news entities name Israel
• 07:49 they call it by its Biblical name.
• 07:51 They're literally testifying of a God that has brought it back.
• 07:54 And I love that.
• 07:56 For people to deny Israel is to deny the Word of God.
• 08:00 And this nation is in trouble because of our many sins.
• 08:03 But one of our primary sins I think
• 08:05 is a tendency to turn away from Israel, our dear ally.
• 08:10 I really believe that Genesis Chapter 12
• 08:15 this is going to be in effect for America very soon
• 08:18 if we don't get back to blessing Israel.
• 08:21 You know Zola used to have a theory he told me
• 08:23 and I think it's true,
• 08:25 that people who have a problem with Israel...
• 08:27 it reflects a greater problem
• 08:29 and that is they have a problem with the God of Israel.
• 08:30 Yes, I believe that
• 08:32 I think a person who's anti-Semitic
• 08:34 or has even a political problem with Israel
• 08:37 or a problem with the Jews;
• 08:39 they're really showing by that
• 08:40 that they have a God-problem.
• 08:42 I believe that.
• 08:44 And they have a problem with the Word of God.
• 08:45 You deny Israel
• 08:46 you deny the Word of God.
• 08:48 God is Sovereign
• 08:50 That's so true
• 08:51 God has every right to do whatever He wants to do.
• 08:54 He's controlling the whole program.
• 08:56 He said Israel will come back in the later days...
• 08:58 Israel is here.
• 09:00 He said that they would be re-gathered to the land...
• 09:02 that has happened.
• 09:03 And I know God,
• 09:04 He loves His people.
• 09:06 I know God is saving many Jews today.
• 09:08 I love the scripture in Romans
• 09:11 where God said that if they would turn in faith
• 09:12 He is able to graft them back,
• 09:14 to bring them back into the fold.
• 09:16 And I love this ministry
• 09:20 because what you guys do as far as reaching out to Israel.
• 09:23 I've been a fan of Zola's program and the current program today
• 09:26 because of that heartbeat toward Israel.
• 09:30 And that's one thing that Zola and this ministry
• 09:33 have represented so well
• 09:35 and so many ways
• 09:36 through television...
• 09:38 the music even...everything. >>Right...yes
• 09:41 Zola's wonderful music and your documentaries filmed in Israel.
• 09:46 It all has shown just how key I think Israel is to God's overall prophetic plan.
• 09:54 And my goodness anywhere we look now no matter...
• 09:57 And I always like to say
• 09:59 no matter which way the camera's turned
• 10:00 or the microphone is turned
• 10:03 they're eventually going to focus right back there in Israel and Jerusalem.
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• 11:48 Jerusalem... it is a beautiful city.
• 11:50 It is God's city.
• 11:53 You know in Psalm 48 it's talked about being the Zion of God.
• 11:57 God's city Jerusalem is the City of our great King.
• 12:01 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the City of our God.
• 12:06 There's nothing like singing praises to our LORD in Jerusalem.
• 12:09 We would love it if you could
• 12:11 come join us in one of those choirs
• 12:13 and see the amazing God of the Bible.
• 12:17 It's really true.
• 12:20 And we're seeing the different nations surrounding Israel
• 12:23 rise and fall in importance relative to the centrality of Jerusalem in Israel.
• 12:28 Back in 2005 our friend Walid Shoebat former PLO Terrorist
• 12:32 told a group of our friends in northern California...
• 12:35 we were holding a conference,
• 12:36 a "One New Man" conference...
• 12:38 and he told our people back then," Watch Turkey".
• 12:42 "As you see Turkey drifting from a democratic state in conversation with Israel"
• 12:46 "to an Islamic theocracy, be careful."
• 12:50 And do you know several years ago when we were in Turkey
• 12:52 we went to Ephesus,
• 12:54 our guide privately told us,
• 12:57 "please pray for my country, we used to be democratic and we're becoming Islamic"
• 13:01 "and I'm so worried but I can't say that out loud."
• 13:03 He had to say it to us quietly
• 13:06 and we prayed for him and we prayed for Turkey.
• 13:08 And I want to ask you as well to pray for Turkey
• 13:12 because you remember several years ago they sent a flotilla,
• 13:15 a terror flotilla set up to go against the coasts of Israel
• 13:21 and all the political fallout that came from that.
• 13:23 So we need to watch that as we see Turkey and the connection
• 13:27 with the European Union arising.
• 13:29 We know that the hour is getting closer.
• 13:32 In fact, let's listen to our friend Phillip Goodman.
• 13:34 He's an expert on these things.
• 13:36 Let's go to that interview right now.
• 13:39 I've become convinced of the evidence,
• 13:41 very strong Biblical evidence
• 13:43 that we're looking at a revived Roman Empire...
• 13:48 a term that has been used by many prophecy students and scholars alike
• 13:52 but nevertheless is a Biblical concept
• 13:55 which will include both an Eastern and a Western portion
• 13:58 as the original empire did.
• 14:01 And the emphasis like a drum beat going through the book of Daniel
• 14:07 continually throws us back to the Eastern sector of the original Roman Empire
• 14:13 and the Grecian aspect of it,
• 14:16 the Greco-Roman Hellenistic part of that empire
• 14:20 when we're looking at the last days and the final empire of the beast.
• 14:24 The forerunner of Iran and Persia,
• 14:29 actually the offshoot in the ancient days of Persia,
• 14:36 much of that empire Parthia plays a major role in that part both in Daniel and Revelation
• 14:42 because it does bleed over toward the Euphrates River and the Persian Gulf
• 14:46 and the Roman Empire at its greatest extent
• 14:49 went right over into that area.
• 14:52 What really gets my attention in the book of Daniel is when we get into particularly chapter 8
• 14:59 where we have the old Grecian Empire broken into its post-Alexandrian realms.
• 15:06 And essentially there is one particular empire that rose head and shoulders above the others;
• 15:13 well there are actually two,
• 15:15 the Ptolemaic and then the Seleucid Empire.
• 15:17 Well the Seleucid Empire was basically an outline of the ancient Assyrian Empire.
• 15:22 And we find not only in Daniel chapter 8
• 15:26 but the theme seems to grow as we go into Daniel 11.
• 15:30 We find there is an anti-Christ type
• 15:33 who is the clearest type in the scriptures
• 15:38 of the future anti-Christ
• 15:40 and that's Antiochus Epiphanes
• 15:41 who came from that particular...
• 15:44 he was a Greek but he was Assyrian-Greek
• 15:46 and he led that Seleucid Empire.
• 15:48 Well that Seleucid Empire
• 15:50 and what's important about that and the impact of it
• 15:52 is that it reconfigures the ancient Assyrian Empire
• 15:56 which today includes both Syria and Iraq
• 16:00 and actually slips over into parts of Iran and Parthia.
• 16:05 And then when you get to the book of Revelation
• 16:07 that whole thing grows
• 16:10 and we find various animal body parts
• 16:17 which are metaphorically kingdoms out of Daniel re-named
• 16:23 and related to us in Revelation 13 and 17.
• 16:27 And yet when you get to Revelation
• 16:30 all those kingdoms are united as you would expect...
• 16:33 the same beast parts,
• 16:35 the same identifiers,
• 16:37 the same geo-political spheres are united into one kingdom
• 16:41 and one of those certainly is going to be the realm of the anti-Christ in the last days
• 16:47 where you have ten kings
• 16:50 and amid those ten kings you'll have an eleventh one come up,
• 16:52 a contemporary with the ten.
• 16:55 And he seems from the evidence in my view from Daniel and Revelation
• 17:01 when you correlate all that information
• 17:03 to come out of the Eastern leg in particular,
• 17:06 specially an ancient Assyrian region
• 17:09 which again Daniel relates to the anti-Christ type
• 17:17 if there ever was one it was Antiochus Epiphanes.
• 17:20 He is the leader of that Seleucid Empire
• 17:22 the emphasis rightly so
• 17:25 that is going to be a prince of the people who is to come
• 17:28 and Daniel 9:26 who is a Roman.
• 17:32 He is a Roman but when we look at the history we find out
• 17:36 that Romans and Roman emperors came from both sectors of the empire.
• 17:40 So we've got to take into consideration at least the Eastern leg.
• 17:44 And then when we look at Daniel and the Biblical information
• 17:47 without going outside the Bible
• 17:49 to the historical sources and they're very important
• 17:51 but staying inside the Bible
• 17:53 Daniel screams for an Eastern leg
• 17:57 because of the terrific, strong type of the anti-Christ in there...
• 18:02 That's the point I made earlier.
• 18:05 Antiochus Epiphanes is the type of the anti-Christ all the way through Daniel
• 18:08 but he is such a tight type which infers very strongly
• 18:14 that the anti-Christ is going to have a strong
• 18:17 historical, ethnic
• 18:19 and geo-political relationship to Antiochus.
• 18:24 Antiochus was Eastern and the Roman Empire originally...
• 18:28 We've become so Euro-centric in our interpretation of the final beast empire
• 18:34 that everything is Western...
• 18:35 but not Biblically.
• 18:37 Biblically it's both.
• 18:41 We've got strong evidence for the clay, iron configuration of what we're seeing today.
• 18:46 The Middle East, especially Turkey; Turkey is the key there.
• 18:49 There's no other European or Islamic
• 18:52 and it's been in both camps and continues to be that way.
• 18:55 They are the key...
• 18:57 they are the link...
• 18:59 they are the stepping stone into the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 19:02 What's amazing today is that we're not only discussing the rise of the European Union
• 19:08 but now we're discussing the potential rise of the Mediterranean Union
• 19:12 with Turkey being the leader of that group right there
• 19:16 as basically an acquiescence from the European Union that
• 19:20 Hey, we're worried about admitting you to the European Union
• 19:23 because of your Islamic ethnicity
• 19:27 and all of that's too strong.
• 19:29 We're worried about that
• 19:31 but to satisfy you and to take care of that problem
• 19:34 let's create the Mediterranean Union.
• 19:36 And of course Turkey still wants into the European Union,
• 19:39 they may get there but either way Turkey is the stepping stone.
• 19:42 They are the lynchpin, the link
• 19:45 to the Eastern leg of the revived Roman Empire.
• 19:50 It's so important when we're studying end times prophecy
• 19:53 that we rightly divide the Word of Truth
• 19:55 that we know what people group God is speaking to.
• 19:58 You know in I Corinthians 10:32
• 20:01 it talks about to give no offense to the Jew, to the Gentile or to the church of God.
• 20:07 There are 3 people groups that God is talking to
• 20:10 and we need to know when God is giving a prophecy or a warning
• 20:14 who that prophecy or warning is going to.
• 20:16 It's so important.
• 20:18 Thank you for reminding us about that.
• 20:19 It's so important also
• 20:21 that we remember that God is over all of this.
• 20:23 And Yeshua said of Himself
• 20:25 He is the Alpha and Omega,
• 20:27 He is the Alef and Hatav,
• 20:28 He is the First and the Last,
• 20:29 (speaking Hebrew)
• 20:32 He is the One that we are looking to.
• 20:35 And so we know that we can find rest and comfort and strength
• 20:39 knowing that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is over all the mishegas, the craziness
• 20:43 that we're about to see in the world.
• 20:45 Let's continue our interviews with our experts.
• 20:49 You know the Kingdom program
• 20:52 is really something that is to come to the world through the nation of Israel.
• 20:54 Absolutely
• 20:57 We go back really to the Abrahamic blessings Covenant...promises really
• 21:00 first in Genesis 12
• 21:03 where God says I will bless you and your descendants and through you the world will be blessed.
• 21:08 And when you think about it
• 21:10 every blessing that we have today...
• 21:12 I'm a Gentile; as a Gentile Christian...
• 21:15 has come to us through the nation of Israel...
• 21:17 the scripture...
• 21:18 Christ being Jewish...
• 21:21 and of course this Messianic Kingdom
• 21:23 which will be headquartered in the nation of Israel.
• 21:26 And so from there you kind of move into the Covenants
• 21:30 that God made with this very special nation.
• 21:32 Covenants involving land, seed and blessing;
• 21:36 they've never been fulfilled in history
• 21:39 as much as people try to argue they were fulfilled in Solomon's day or Joshua's day.
• 21:44 But you start to get an understanding that there's coming this earthly Kingdom
• 21:49 and then you get into the Prophets and they really start to develop the Kingdom.
• 21:54 Particularly I'm thinking of Isaiah 2:1-4.
• 21:59 I'm thinking of Isaiah 11:6-9 how there would be peace in the animal kingdom
• 22:06 and a child will stick his hand into the cobra's nest and not be harmed...
• 22:11 and they'll neither hurt nor destroy on my holy mountain says the LORD.
• 22:15 And so you start to see through this development
• 22:18 that the Kingdom is a very literal place on planet earth.
• 22:22 It has geographical boundaries.
• 22:24 The quality of life that we will enjoy in the Kingdom
• 22:29 is all revealed there through this nation of Israel.
• 22:32 It is the 12 tribes of Israel...
• 22:34 it's not the church.
• 22:35 There's this focus on this.
• 22:38 Forty days after the resurrection of Messiah
• 22:42 the disciples are led to the Mount of Olives and up toward a place near Bethany
• 22:48 where Yeshua will ascend to heaven.
• 22:52 And the disciples eager...
• 22:56 probably I think turn around looking at this vantage point
• 22:59 as we all that have been on the Mount of Olives see the City of Jerusalem
• 23:02 and realize that Zechariah in 14:3
• 23:06 is talking about the armies of the world ascending on Jerusalem,
• 23:12 that the Messiah's feet would stand on the Mount of Olives in that day
• 23:16 and that there would be a great splitting of the mountain
• 23:19 and the Jewish people would be saved as a result of that.
• 23:21 And they say LORD is it this time
• 23:24 you're going to restore the Kingdom to Israel
• 23:27 because we know now that you had to go to the cross
• 23:31 but that's done and now it's time for the crown
• 23:34 so we're going to see the fulfillment of prophecy now...
• 23:37 the armies are surrounding Jerusalem, there's the Romans...
• 23:39 And He says, and many people think He says in some way
• 23:44 no, no, no you've got it all wrong;
• 23:47 the Kingdom's within you, this is all a spiritual adventure.
• 23:50 You go and you be my witnesses in the spiritual realm.
• 23:53 That's not what He says at all.
• 23:56 He doesn't correct their understanding of the Kingdom.
• 23:58 In fact Acts 1:3 says that for those forty days
• 24:02 He had been teaching them concerning the Kingdom of God.
• 24:05 And so unless they're absolute total dunces
• 24:09 and they ask are you going to restore the Kingdom to Israel,
• 24:13 this is what the Kingdom He was talking about
• 24:15 because He said...
• 24:17 The last words to them before the crucifixion in the upper room was
• 24:20 I'll not eat of the Pesach Seder
• 24:24 until I drink of the fruit of the vine...
• 24:28 until I do it new with you in my Father's Kingdom.
• 24:31 So He expected a literal enjoyment of a Messianic banquet,
• 24:35 let's put it that way.
• 24:37 I think the words are drawn from Isaiah 25:6-9
• 24:41 that talks about this end time re-gathering and banquet
• 24:45 that's to be enjoyed as a celebration of the victory and the triumph
• 24:48 and the beginning of the Messianic age.
• 24:50 But that's what's in focus.
• 24:52 Everything that's happening is according to God's plan.
• 24:54 So the church is not "plan B"
• 24:56 but it's not the Kingdom.
• 24:59 The Kingdom is going to come one day exactly like God said it would.
• 25:03 And that's why Jesus taught us to pray "They Kingdom come..."
• 25:08 Yeah, the Kingdom awaits His return as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in Revelation 19
• 25:14 Absolutely
• 25:16 He'll come and establish the Kingdom
• 25:18 and we look forward to that day
• 25:20 and Israel being re-gathered as you know preparatory
• 25:23 for that establishment of the Messianic Kingdom.
• 25:28 Yeah and it's very exciting because many people have told us
• 25:31 that all of these Kingdom promises are not literal
• 25:34 and then all of a sudden in 1948...WOW the nation is back in the Land.
• 25:39 Which is not the final package
• 25:41 but as you articulated it's preparatory
• 25:44 and all of a sudden you see,
• 25:45 Oh my goodness...
• 25:46 Israel means Israel...
• 25:48 Jerusalem means Jerusalem...
• 25:49 Nation means Nation
• 25:51 What burdens me is that we're living in this time period
• 25:57 where it's so exciting and the church is playing it all down.
• 26:00 Very frustrating to watch
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• 26:10 These interviews are inspiring and illuminating.
• 26:12 You know the King of Glory is coming
• 26:15 and Jesus is going to fulfill every one of His scriptures.
• 26:17 It says in Revelation 1:8
• 26:19 "who is, and who was, and who is to come".
• 26:22 And I am looking for that day
• 26:25 when He is going to meet us in the air.
• 26:27 You know this whole story,
• 26:29 the end times story is a story of restoration.
• 26:32 It's the restoration of the Jewish people to our land.
• 26:34 It's the restoration of souls to Yeshua.
• 26:36 It's the land, the people
• 26:38 and it calls upon all of us to look to the LORD.
• 26:41 We're looking for that day that Zechariah 12:10 prophesied
• 26:45 where he said that we, the Jewish people, will look to Him who we have pierced.
• 26:48 We've all pierced Him together.
• 26:50 Your sin and mine pierced Him.
• 26:53 He laid His life down for the entire world as the sacrificial Lamb.
• 26:55 We will look to Him who we've pierced
• 26:57 and mourn as if for an only son
• 27:00 recognizing the Messiah, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
• 27:02 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 27:06 We're looking to that day
• 27:08 and He's coming back to a Jewish Jerusalem to rule for a thousand years.
• 27:13 And that's why we end our program by reminding you always,
• 27:18 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:20 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
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