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Caption transcript for Zion Forever: “Western Wall” (2/9)

• 00:04 There are tears on this wall;
• 00:06 there are stains on this wall
• 00:08 from the years of wailing here
• 00:10 mourning the loss of the Temple.
• 00:13 But there was a first Temple;
• 00:14 there was a second Temple;
• 00:16 and there is a Temple to come.
• 00:45 For Zion's sake
• 00:47 I will not hold my peace
• 00:49 and for Jerusalem's sake
• 00:51 I will not rest
• 00:53 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
• 00:57 And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
• 01:10 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 01:12 I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:13 and I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:14 And we want to welcome you
• 01:15 to our series "Zion Forever".
• 01:17 We're going to emphasize the City of David,
• 01:20 the Temple Mount;
• 01:21 some of the heartbeat of God.
• 01:23 Correct...
• 01:24 because these are contested areas
• 01:26 that are always in the news in some form or another
• 01:28 because the media of the world
• 01:30 and some of the enemies of Israel
• 01:31 are saying that there has never been a Jewish presence there.
• 01:33 But we know from scripture
• 01:35 archeology
• 01:36 history
• 01:37 by means of conquest
• 01:38 and international law going back to the League of Nations
• 01:41 and the United Nations
• 01:43 that Israel has a right to be where we are.
• 01:46 And it's not only that.
• 01:47 The Church...
• 01:48 God is calling the Church
• 01:50 to carry His heart for His people and His Land.
• 01:53 We continue to remind you.
• 01:56 We have gotten this beautiful Word, the Scripture.
• 01:59 The Holy Prophets came through the Jewish people.
• 02:02 Our Messiah was Jewish.
• 02:04 But more importantly in our day...
• 02:06 or most important
• 02:07 there's a moral clarity
• 02:09 that they're holding for us against the war on terror.
• 02:12 The war on terror is prophesied by the Bible.
• 02:16 Isaiah says...
• 02:21 and we are living in that time right now.
• 02:24 We're hearing all kinds of what my grandmother would call
• 02:26 "bubba mysis" - "grandmother's tales"
• 02:28 coming across the media airwaves
• 02:30 regarding what's happening in Israel.
• 02:31 But the truth is still the truth.
• 02:33 This Word is true.
• 02:35 God is fulfilling it.
• 02:36 And if we're going to understand what's going on in the world
• 02:39 we have to look through the lens of the Bible.
• 02:41 Its the only way we can interpret
• 02:44 what's happening there isn't it?
• 02:45 It's wonderful.
• 02:46 There's a great awakening happening
• 02:48 in the Church I know.
• 02:50 And we're just so grateful
• 02:51 to be able to show you now
• 02:53 a little bit from the Western Wall.
• 03:01 Talk about the Jewish presence in the Land...
• 03:03 behind us you see the Western Wall.
• 03:05 It's the outer retaining wall
• 03:07 to the Temples that existed here.
• 03:09 Right now its being contested;
• 03:11 being said that there never was
• 03:13 a Jewish presence in the Land,
• 03:15 never a Temple.
• 03:16 And yet this goes back to the time of David doesn't it?
• 03:18 Absolutely
• 03:19 3,000 years ago
• 03:21 David decided and declared
• 03:23 that this is the capital
• 03:24 of the Jewish people.
• 03:25 No other people group
• 03:27 have ever claimed that this is the capital.
• 03:29 It is the Jewish capital
• 03:31 of the Jewish people.
• 03:32 Not Muslims...not Turks
• 03:34 not the Mamluks who marched through here.
• 03:36 Its the Jewish homeland
• 03:38 and they're here to stay.
• 03:39 Hallelujah!
• 03:40 You know its really true.
• 03:41 This Ha Makom - "The Place"
• 03:43 This Western Wall is the closest
• 03:45 that the Jewish people can get
• 03:46 to the former Holy Place.
• 03:48 Its in there.
• 03:49 It is there.
• 03:50 And it is "Ha Makom"
• 03:51 "The Place".
• 03:52 Its the place of vision.
• 03:53 It's the place of life.
• 03:54 The place that God looked forward
• 03:57 to see what He would do here.
• 03:58 And He said that He would
• 04:00 "establish David's throne forever".
• 04:02 How will He do that?
• 04:03 He'll do that
• 04:04 because the Son of David,
• 04:05 David's greater son Yeshua
• 04:07 is going to rule and reign
• 04:09 from this place
• 04:10 in this capital.
• 04:11 Now we're here today...
• 04:12 its Bar Mitzvah day.
• 04:13 Its a day that Jewish kids are
• 04:15 celebrating their entrance into Jewish life
• 04:17 with the celebration of the Bar Mitzvah
• 04:19 becoming sons of the law,
• 04:21 sons of the Torah.
• 04:22 And its a celebration day.
• 04:24 Its a day when the Jewish people
• 04:26 remember where we've come from
• 04:27 and look forward to where we're going.
• 04:29 And I believe the day is coming
• 04:31 when everyone here
• 04:32 will look upon Him who we have pierced.
• 04:34 And mourn as if for an only son
• 04:36 and say as the scripture says,
• 04:38 they will bow their knee
• 04:40 and they will say that Jesus is LORD
• 04:42 to the glory of God the Father.
• 04:44 That day is coming.
• 04:45 And it will be established here
• 04:46 at Ha Makom the throne of God.
• 04:49 David...King David
• 04:50 bought this place from a Jebusite;
• 04:53 from Ornan the Jebusite.
• 04:56 He bought the threshing floor.
• 04:58 And he did that purposefully
• 05:00 because he wanted this to be
• 05:01 a legal establishing place
• 05:03 for the LORD.
• 05:12 ♪ Shalom aleinu ♪ "Peace for us"
• 05:13 ♪ v'al kol Yisrael ♪♪ "and for all Israel"
• 05:15 We're hearing the sounds of celebration.
• 05:17 Behind me you see a picture of the Temple.
• 05:19 And we're at Ha Makom
• 05:21 as close as we can get
• 05:22 to the "The Place".
• 05:23 The place where the Holy of Holies stood.
• 05:25 It is the most sacred place
• 05:27 in all of Jewish life.
• 05:29 And it is here
• 05:30 where people are coming today
• 05:31 to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah.
• 05:32 It's such an awesome time.
• 05:34 It's such a time of joy and remembering
• 05:36 the good things of the LORD
• 05:37 and the promises to Israel.
• 05:39 In fact, they're singing that all of Israel
• 05:41 will stay and will be here.
• 05:44 And God has established this
• 05:46 as "The Place" for the Jewish people to dwell
• 05:48 now and forever.
• 05:50 In fact, Amos 19 says...
• 05:58 and that's the season that we're in right now.
• 06:01 This Temple built by Solomon
• 06:03 because David had blood on his hands.
• 06:05 It was built by Solomon
• 06:06 and then rebuilt by Nehemiah and Ezra
• 06:09 and then rebuilt again by Herod.
• 06:12 And when Herod did it
• 06:13 he built this with a platform that was
• 06:15 16 football fields wide.
• 06:18 This is "The Place".
• 06:19 And this is the place where God
• 06:21 has established His throne forever.
• 06:23 And His promise to David
• 06:25 was that there would always be a king dwelling in here forever
• 06:29 And that looks forward to the Meshiach.
• 06:32 It looks forward to the "King of Kings"
• 06:34 "Melech Hamelachim" (King of Kings)
• 06:36 "Adonai v' Adonai" (Lord of Lords)
• 06:38 There are tears on this wall;
• 06:39 There are stains on this wall
• 06:41 from the years of wailing here
• 06:44 mourning the loss of the Temple.
• 06:46 But there was a first Temple,
• 06:48 there was a second Temple
• 06:49 and there is a Temple to come.
• 06:53 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 06:58 ♪ Israel, my promised ♪
• 07:02 ♪ Chosen of God ♪
• 07:06 ♪ Chosen for me ♪
• 07:10 ♪ Homeland forever ♪
• 07:14 ♪ Land of Messiah ♪
• 07:18 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 07:26 ♪ Our God watches thee. ♪♪
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• 08:59 to the Land of Israel itself
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• 09:04 and we love sharing that with you.
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• 09:07 Yeah.
• 09:08 You know the battle over Zion
• 09:09 is not merely a battle over land
• 09:12 and its not just a real estate issue.
• 09:14 It's a battle for the souls of men.
• 09:16 It's a battle over ideas.
• 09:18 And there's going to come a great separation.
• 09:20 And that's why this program is so relevant to us now
• 09:23 because we see
• 09:24 even in the upcoming segment
• 09:26 the importance of the winnowing
• 09:28 that's going to take place in the Master's hands.
• 09:31 We're going to hear from our tour guide,
• 09:32 a dear friend of ours,
• 09:33 Hannah Ben Haim.
• 09:35 She's been living in the Land for many years
• 09:36 with her husband Eliyahu.
• 09:38 They're leaders in the Messianic body.
• 09:39 But they also have a tremendous burden
• 09:42 to awaken the West
• 09:44 to the realities of life in the Land
• 09:47 and the prophetic significance of Israel.
• 09:50 So let's go to Hannah Ben Haim now from Jerusalem.
• 09:55 Hannah we're here at the City of David.
• 09:57 The Temple Mount behind us.
• 09:59 What a connection
• 10:00 and what an amazing story
• 10:02 that David as king came here
• 10:04 and established this capital
• 10:06 and bought the threshing floor.
• 10:08 tell us about that.
• 10:09 Absolutely...absolutely
• 10:11 We are so privileged to be here today.
• 10:14 To be back in the City of David
• 10:16 and to be looking at the area of where the Temple once stood
• 10:21 that David did everything for to prepare.
• 10:25 And we read about
• 10:26 this account of David.
• 10:28 David sinned - you know.
• 10:30 David had many sins.
• 10:32 But in this instance David sinned because
• 10:33 he had counted his physical strength,
• 10:36 his mighty army.
• 10:37 Exactly
• 10:38 And then of course
• 10:39 he chooses to fall into the hand of God.
• 10:41 And this is recorded in II Samuel 24.
• 10:44 And at the time that this plague is hitting Israel
• 10:48 and thousands of people are dying...
• 10:50 70,000
• 10:51 70,000 have already died.
• 10:53 I look at this as David's low point in his life.
• 10:57 It says...
• 11:09 Hallelujah!
• 11:10 He saved Jerusalem at that time.
• 11:12 And he says to the Angel of Death...
• 11:18 What is it enough of?
• 11:20 This is the place where there's a red line
• 11:22 on the face of the earth.
• 11:23 It is enough of death.
• 11:25 And God Himself intervenes,
• 11:27 stops the same Angel
• 11:29 that's destroying them in Exodus 12
• 11:32 and now gives them basically another chance.
• 11:36 Because its a love story
• 11:38 and its always been intended
• 11:39 for the seed of life
• 11:40 to be coming from this place.
• 11:42 And because God chose this place.
• 11:44 We read about this in II Samuel
• 11:48 Yes
• 11:49 but of course we've read about it in Genesis.
• 11:51 Genesis 22 tells us
• 11:53 this is the place.
• 11:54 This is Mount Moriah.
• 11:55 This is His Holy Mountain.
• 11:57 Ha Makom
• 11:57 Yes!
• 11:58 And in Exodus 15
• 12:00 he talks about when
• 12:01 they have come out of the Red Sea
• 12:03 they talk about
• 12:04 the mountain of His inheritance.
• 12:06 Here it is!
• 12:07 He chose it for His everlasting Sanctuary.
• 12:10 So of course the LORD Himself is not going to allow this place to be destroyed.
• 12:14 And at this point,
• 12:16 after the Angel of Death
• 12:17 has been stopped here
• 12:20 on what we call the threshing floor of Araunah
• 12:24 David is told by the prophet
• 12:26 to go and make a sacrifice.
• 12:28 And he goes up to the Jebusite...
• 12:30 Remember this would be outside of the City at that time.
• 12:33 The City ended right about where we're standing.
• 12:36 And over there would have been a high place
• 12:39 of an enormous piece of bedrock
• 12:41 that extended outside of the Land.
• 12:43 A perfect place for a threshing floor
• 12:46 because a threshing floor must be exposed;
• 12:48 a threshing floor must be a hard surface.
• 12:51 And that's what David approaches
• 12:53 the Jebusite Araunah.
• 12:55 He buys it from him.
• 12:57 Now, this reminds me
• 12:59 of how Hebron was bought by Abraham
• 13:00 for the burial of Sarah.
• 13:02 Full price.
• 13:03 Full price.
• 13:04 "I'm not going to take this as a gift."
• 13:05 No deals.
• 13:06 Araunah says, here take it my Lord,
• 13:08 here's everything you need.
• 13:09 And David says a very important thing.
• 13:12 He says...
• 13:22 David understands the principle of sacrifice.
• 13:25 Sacrifice must cost you.
• 13:26 It's you giving to the mighty God.
• 13:29 And so he pays him this exorbitant amount of money.
• 13:32 If you notice... 50 silver shekels.
• 13:35 And here we have the contract right here in the Word of God.
• 13:39 So David buys that threshing floor as we know.
• 13:41 He wasn't allowed because of the blood on his hands
• 13:44 to build actually the first Temple.
• 13:47 But it would be given to his son Solomon.
• 13:49 So he buys the threshing floor.
• 13:52 That's that hard surface
• 13:54 that today there's a golden dome over.
• 13:57 And there he will do everything he can
• 14:00 to prepare the way for Solomon
• 14:02 to build the first Temple.
• 14:03 So well before
• 14:05 United Nations resolutions;
• 14:07 well before
• 14:09 peace processes;
• 14:10 Well before
• 14:11 all the mishegas in the modern world
• 14:13 King David 1,000 years before the birth of Yeshua
• 14:17 3,000 years ago
• 14:19 he bought this place full price legally.
• 14:22 Absolutely...absolutely
• 14:24 And this would be the extension of the City in the time of Solomon.
• 14:28 Solomon will build to the north
• 14:31 and include that area
• 14:32 that is called the "Temple Mount" today.
• 14:35 Yes
• 14:36 Not everyone calls it the Temple Mount.
• 14:37 Yes
• 14:38 But initially when we start thinking about the Temple
• 14:41 and the Temple Mount
• 14:43 and all that's there now
• 14:45 it's very interesting that
• 14:47 the Muslims, the Jews, and the Christians
• 14:49 all believe that the final judgment area
• 14:52 on the face of the earth
• 14:53 is the Temple Mount
• 14:55 Now David saw that.
• 14:56 And he writes about it...
• 15:00 And that's the picture of the threshing floor.
• 15:02 And the promise to David
• 15:04 his seed...
• 15:05 that his seed would be on this throne forever.
• 15:08 Forever...and we know who was part of the seed of David.
• 15:11 The Tribe of Judah the seed of David.
• 15:13 Fulfilling that promise.
• 15:15 The threshing floor itself
• 15:17 there is an incredible parallel
• 15:18 with what's going on in the modern world.
• 15:20 Please... tell us about that.
• 15:22 A threshing floor...
• 15:23 Now a lot of us because we're not agrarian today
• 15:25 don't understand that.
• 15:27 So a threshing floor is where you bring the harvest in.
• 15:29 Now we're talking about wheat or barley;
• 15:32 the staple of life if you'd like.
• 15:36 And you would come at the end of the season
• 15:39 with your wheat and your barley
• 15:41 and you would bring the sheaves to the threshing floor.
• 15:45 Now, you'd lay the sheaves down on the threshing floor
• 15:49 after they had dried in the field.
• 15:50 And actually...
• 15:52 immediately after Pesach
• 15:53 we start counting the Omer.
• 15:55 And that's the sheaves for the wheat harvest.
• 15:58 So every day they went out and cut some of the wheat.
• 16:01 And then you have to do something kind of awful.
• 16:05 Excuse me for saying that.
• 16:06 You need a threshing sledge.
• 16:08 Yes.
• 16:10 Now a threshing sledge is sort of a big, chunky, teethy, heavy
• 16:14 not very beautiful item.
• 16:16 And it must be dragged across the sheaves
• 16:20 that are placed there on the threshing floor.
• 16:22 You know in the book of Isaiah,
• 16:24 Isaiah 41, he says...
• 16:32 That means they were new and fresh and ready to cut up.
• 16:36 And what you do is
• 16:37 you drag that threshing sledge across the threshing floor
• 16:41 and you keep dragging it, and keep dragging it.
• 16:44 And at the end it is absolutely chopped up into little bits.
• 16:48 It is a mess!
• 16:50 Now, talk about the end of the age.
• 16:52 You don't think it's going to be a little confusing who's who?
• 16:54 It's getting messy.
• 16:55 It's getting messy...
• 16:57 It's getting messy.
• 16:58 Now, in the book of Matthew
• 17:00 we hear John speaking to us, alright?
• 17:03 In Matthew 3 he says...
• 17:20 Now, there's the update.
• 17:22 That's what the LORD is about to do.
• 17:24 So after God uses, unfortunately Israel
• 17:27 to be the threshing sledge.
• 17:29 This was His choice.
• 17:30 And after, we know,
• 17:32 the nations will be brought to this place
• 17:34 for harvesting the seed which will go into the barn.
• 17:38 Judgment of sheep and goat nations.
• 17:40 Absolutely, we're talking about separation.
• 17:42 We're talking about that which has weight
• 17:45 and that which has no substance;
• 17:47 hay, wood and stubble.
• 17:48 You have to separate them.
• 17:51 Now, weight is of course the picture of Glory itself.
• 17:56 God has put His glory in us as seeds of righteousness for Him.
• 18:01 And so that weight which is the same word as glory
• 18:06 will of course bring the seed to the ground.
• 18:09 So, when the LORD of the harvest,
• 18:12 whom we know who he is,
• 18:13 will take His winnowing fork
• 18:16 and start throwing this mess up in the air;
• 18:18 that which has no weight
• 18:20 will blow into unquenchable fire.
• 18:22 Alright?
• 18:24 That is pretty good picture of some place I don't want to go.
• 18:26 Alright?
• 18:27 I don't know about you.
• 18:28 But that's not where I want to go.
• 18:29 But that which has weight will fall to the ground.
• 18:31 Kavod
• 18:32 Kavod...it will fall to the ground.
• 18:36 His "Glory" will bring us down, if you'd like.
• 18:39 And you know my favorite part of that scripture in Matthew is
• 18:43 "He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor.
• 18:47 He won't leave any of it behind.
• 18:49 He'll bring it all into the barn.
• 18:51 This is that picture of the end of the age.
• 18:53 But the big operation
• 18:56 of this separation
• 18:57 only will come with wind.
• 19:00 Wind
• 19:01 Wind is that which the harvester will throw it up
• 19:05 only when there's a good wind.
• 19:06 Now, we have a nice prevailing western wind in Jerusalem.
• 19:09 And of course, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
• 19:13 It usually starts around
• 19:14 2:00 in the afternoon.
• 19:16 And so we have this picture of
• 19:18 the harvester waiting for the wind.
• 19:21 Now, that word wind "ruach"
• 19:23 has two other meanings.
• 19:25 One is of course "the Spirit";
• 19:27 a "ruach" is Spirit.
• 19:29 The other one is "the Breath of God Himself"
• 19:32 WOW..
• 19:33 Now "Ruchi" God's breath is not my breath.
• 19:37 It's not even similar to what in Hebrew is my breath.
• 19:41 So God uses His Spirit as the breath to separate between that which will fall to the ground
• 19:47 and that which will be carried into that unquenchable fire.
• 19:51 That's the picture of the threshing floor.
• 19:54 That place of separation.
• 19:55 That final judgment.
• 19:57 Yes
• 19:58 And that barn coming down from that Holy Jerusalem.
• 20:02 WOW!...Awesome!
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• 20:46 there's nothing like it.
• 20:48 It's where you see the
• 20:49 prophetic scriptures come alive.
• 20:51 You're going to see the
• 20:53 fulfillment that he said
• 20:54 he would bring the Jewish
• 20:55 people back to the Land,
• 20:57 he would establish them
• 20:58 in their ancient homeland
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• 21:00 cause it to bloom.
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• 21:02 our Messiah came,
• 21:04 died and will soon return.
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• 21:08 and see for yourself
• 21:10 a little bit of where
• 21:12 you'll be spending
• 21:13 1,000 years with our LORD.
• 21:14 That's good.
• 21:16 A lot of what we do together as Jew and Gentile
• 21:18 is celebrate the goodness of God.
• 21:20 And what He's showed us in Ephesians 2:14
• 21:23 that there's a time coming,
• 21:25 He came to the cross,
• 21:26 when He will break down
• 21:27 the middle wall of partition
• 21:29 so that Jews and Gentiles could worship Him together.
• 21:31 And one of the great things
• 21:32 about this work that's going on right now is that
• 21:35 that awakening is increasing around the world.
• 21:38 As we go to "Our Man in Haifa"
• 21:40 Eitan Shishkoff
• 21:42 I want you to be listening
• 21:43 for the connection between
• 21:45 the Tanakh's story of the Jews and Gentiles together
• 21:48 and the B'rit Hadeshah;
• 21:50 the Old Testament, the New Testament.
• 21:51 The connection of this work that God is doing
• 21:54 in bringing Jews and Gentiles together
• 21:56 and what that means prophetically
• 21:58 for the future.
• 21:59 Let's go to Eitan in Israel.
• 22:03 Shalom and welcome.
• 22:05 I am being joined this afternoon by
• 22:06 Mosha and Roni
• 22:07 who it turns out
• 22:09 are neighbors of mine.
• 22:10 We live here in the same area.
• 22:12 And as you can see and hear behind me
• 22:14 we're at the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
• 22:17 And the Mediterranean has great significance in the scriptures.
• 22:21 In the Hebrew scriptures we read in the book of II Chronicles
• 22:25 that it was along these waters that King Hiram from Tyre
• 22:31 which is just up into today's Lebanon
• 22:33 sent massive timbers, supplies and manpower
• 22:37 to Solomon to build the original Temple in Jerusalem.
• 22:41 To me that's a fantastic example
• 22:44 of the kind of cooperation between Jews and Gentiles
• 22:48 that's being called for today.
• 22:51 In fact, I love this story
• 22:53 in which appears in I Chronicles
• 22:56 and then II Kings.
• 22:58 Solomon looked to Hiram;
• 23:00 he actually asked him
• 23:02 to assist him in the process of building the Temple.
• 23:06 And this process was something that
• 23:08 involved the personnel as I mentioned
• 23:11 and the material from Lebanon
• 23:14 from up over the border.
• 23:16 In fact, we're not very far from that border right now.
• 23:18 And if it was a clear day
• 23:20 we would be able to see
• 23:22 the border with Israel and Lebanon.
• 23:24 So this cooperation was profound
• 23:27 because Solomon needed
• 23:29 the resources and the friendship of Hiram
• 23:33 in order to complete the Temple.
• 23:35 The Temple was built.
• 23:37 And when the Temple was completed
• 23:39 there was a dedication.
• 23:41 That dedication was something amazing.
• 23:43 Because we read in the scriptures
• 23:45 that the Glory in the presence of God
• 23:48 descended as a cloud upon that place.
• 23:52 Now, to me that's an image of
• 23:54 what the God of Israel wants to do again
• 23:56 through the cooperation of Jewish and Gentile followers
• 24:00 of the Messiah Yeshua.
• 24:02 And I appreciate these gentlemen joining me
• 24:05 in order to make this statement
• 24:07 that we are looking for
• 24:09 that kind of partnership once again today.
• 24:13 You know, for over 20 years
• 24:15 Myles and I have been contending
• 24:17 by the heart of God,
• 24:19 he put his heart in our heart,
• 24:20 to contend to build
• 24:21 bridges between Jews and Christians
• 24:23 and to understand Biblically
• 24:25 where we stand and what God is doing.
• 24:28 And we can align with His Word
• 24:30 and not with our opinions
• 24:32 because I think so much of our life
• 24:34 we have to really not filter it
• 24:36 through our humanistic love
• 24:38 or justice view.
• 24:41 But the God view of mankind
• 24:43 and what his plan is.
• 24:45 Really, it's a sovereignty issue.
• 24:47 And we need his discernment more than ever.
• 24:49 I love what Daniel says.
• 24:51 It says...
• 24:58 That's really true.
• 24:59 And to take action
• 25:00 we need wisdom to know
• 25:01 which actions to take.
• 25:02 I'm thinking about the many times
• 25:04 that we've stood with our Arab-Christian friends
• 25:06 bringing sound systems to our Churches
• 25:09 and helping to raise funds
• 25:10 for different outreaches to the Muslim community.
• 25:12 And yet, during this time now
• 25:15 we realize that as that is going on
• 25:17 there's this pressure on the Arab believers in the Land
• 25:21 to divorce themselves from the Messianic body.
• 25:24 And we are praying for
• 25:25 that unity that Eitan was referring to.
• 25:27 But it has to be in spirit and in truth.
• 25:29 Those that know the LORD
• 25:31 will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
• 25:33 And the pressure is there to draw back
• 25:35 and to become almost subservient
• 25:38 to a message that is against Israel.
• 25:40 And that's very dangerous.
• 25:41 Right, to try to...
• 25:43 we usually like to say,
• 25:45 walk through the raindrops.
• 25:47 You know, sometimes we're going to get wet
• 25:49 if we stand with what God says.
• 25:50 Sometimes there's going to be consequences
• 25:52 but we need to take those actions
• 25:54 because we want to be on the side of the LORD
• 25:56 and not on the side of just being kind
• 26:00 or appeasing for the sake...
• 26:03 I think we're not saying as clearly as we could Myles.
• 26:06 We could just come right out and say
• 26:08 there's some Christian organizations
• 26:10 that have withdrawn their support of Israel
• 26:13 because they are viewing it through
• 26:16 a humanistic love lens
• 26:18 and not the scriptural lens.
• 26:19 Exactly, and they're looking for a peace and justice
• 26:21 or a human solution that is not God's issue.
• 26:24 You said it exactly.
• 26:24 You said "sovereignty".
• 26:26 And this is an issue of God's sovereignty.
• 26:28 God called the Jewish people back to the Land.
• 26:30 He prophesied it then He did it.
• 26:31 He is establishing them in the Land.
• 26:33 He prophesied it and He is doing it.
• 26:35 And now,
• 26:36 there is the water of the Word
• 26:37 the water of the Spirit
• 26:38 that's coming on all flesh
• 26:40 including the Jewish people in the Land
• 26:42 so that we would cry out,
• 26:44 "Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai"
• 26:45 "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD"
• 26:48 At the same time that is going on
• 26:50 some organizations are divorcing themselves
• 26:53 from that establishing of God in the Land.
• 26:56 And that is a very dangerous place to be.
• 26:58 We do not want to be opposing
• 27:00 what God is doing in the earth.
• 27:02 Amen
• 27:03 And that's why we always end our program
• 27:05 with this spiritual injunction
• 27:07 from Psalm 122:6.
• 27:09 The only place in the Word
• 27:11 that a town is called for us to pray for
• 27:13 which is Jerusalem.
• 27:15 And we say to you;
• 27:16 we ask you to hold this tightly to your heart.
• 27:19 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:21 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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