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• 00:06 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today for our
• 00:09 series, "Josiah and the Last Reformation."
• 00:11 Josiah was a good king, even though the nation was in
• 00:14 moral decline.
• 00:16 Kirsten Hart: Throughout this series, we'll be paralleling the
• 00:19 time of Josiah with our current society and the differences and
• 00:24 unfortunately the likenesses also, so let's get started.
• 00:27 Let's go to our favorite place, Israel, to hear from Joshua
• 00:31 and Caleb Colson.
• 00:34 ♪♪♪
• 00:44 ♪♪♪
• 00:54 ♪♪♪
• 01:04 ♪♪♪
• 01:06 Caleb Colson: We're here Israel to speak about the life of King
• 01:10 Josiah and the last days of the Kingdom of Judah, because
• 01:14 I believe that it parallels the last days that we believers are
• 01:17 living in today.
• 01:18 Just as God sent his prophets to foretell the doom and
• 01:21 destruction that was coming upon Judah by the hands of the
• 01:23 Babylonians, I believe America and Israel, Josh, have turned
• 01:27 their backs on God in many key ways, which will lead to the
• 01:31 removal of America as a world superpower and the coming of
• 01:35 Babylon the great.
• 01:36 Joshua Colson: I believe we have, too, but Josiah on the
• 01:38 other hand, he humbled himself before God, and because of this
• 01:42 he pushed the greatest moral and spiritual reformation of
• 01:45 all time.
• 01:47 Because of his reformation, because of his humbleness, God
• 01:50 extended his timeline of judgment, giving man more time.
• 01:53 So, the question is this, is it too late for our nation?
• 01:56 Can we turn and repent?
• 01:58 We're gonna discuss all this in the new series.
• 02:00 ♪♪♪
• 02:07 Joshua: Now, before we talk about the hero of this series,
• 02:10 Josiah, the last righteous king of Judah, we want to talk about
• 02:14 his grandfather, Manasseh,
• 02:16 the worst grandfather ever.
• 02:18 Now, this guy was willing to do anything to get brownie points
• 02:22 with Satan.
• 02:24 Joshua: But no, literally, he would do anything.
• 02:26 In fact, we're contractually obligated to not tell you
• 02:29 everything that we know he did.
• 02:32 Caleb: You know, Manasseh didn't just wake up one morning and
• 02:34 think I wanna be the most evil king in all the Bible, the worst
• 02:38 king in the history of the Kingdom of Judah, you know, it
• 02:40 takes time for a nation to get to that level of depravity, it
• 02:44 never happens overnight.
• 02:46 Joshua: Satan's patient, little by little, step by step,
• 02:48 compromise by compromise, as you slowly work the ball down the
• 02:50 field, until one day you wake up and you're sacrificing your
• 02:53 first son to Moloch.
• 02:55 You think I'm joking?
• 02:56 What do you think modern day abortion is?
• 02:57 Caleb: It's true, but it all began with our man Shlomo.
• 03:01 He was the wisest king in all of history, and for being the
• 03:05 smartest man, Solomon, he sure did make some dumb decisions.
• 03:09 Caleb: Honestly, Solomon was a genius.
• 03:12 Remember that whole fake cutting a baby in half verdict?
• 03:15 It's pretty cool, but he was still a dude and he made some
• 03:18 poor choices with wicked city women.
• 03:20 You know, just like Samson with Delilah, Delilah sucked.
• 03:26 Caleb: 1 Kings 11:1, "King Solomon, however, loved many
• 03:29 foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter.
• 03:32 Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites."
• 03:35 Verse 3 through 4, "He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and
• 03:40 three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
• 03:44 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after
• 03:48 other gods."
• 03:51 Joshua: Guys, Solomon didn't just fall in to sin, he jumped
• 03:56 into the deep end, head first.
• 03:59 This guy built shrines to demons.
• 04:02 He built temples to fallen angels.
• 04:04 In fact, right here were several high places that he set up just
• 04:07 south of the Mount of Olives around the corner from the
• 04:08 Temple Mount, so God couldn't see everything bad he was doing.
• 04:14 Caleb: 2 Kings 23:13 says, "Here were the high places that
• 04:18 were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount
• 04:21 of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for
• 04:24 Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Sidonians for Chemosh the
• 04:28 abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom, the abomination of
• 04:31 the people of Ammon."
• 04:34 Caleb: God prophetically warned the Israelites 400 years before
• 04:37 Solomon through Moses exactly what would occur if they would
• 04:41 establish a line of kings.
• 04:42 And let's just say the prophecy was not pretty, so in order to
• 04:46 keep the Israelites from sinning and their kings living
• 04:48 righteously, God established a handbook, if you will, a list of
• 04:51 rules that they needed to go by for success in living
• 04:54 in righteousness.
• 04:55 Deuteronomy 17:14-20 established that list.
• 04:59 Number one on the list, only Jews on the throne.
• 05:02 No foreigners were allowed to sit on the kingdom of Israel.
• 05:05 But the Israelites found a gray area.
• 05:07 They married foreign wives and then these queens were sitting
• 05:10 on the throne.
• 05:11 Joshua: God knew they would mess up, which leads us
• 05:13 to rule number two.
• 05:14 Usually these seductive women are attractive, and so God said,
• 05:18 look, do not intermarry anyone that is a Canaanite, anyone that
• 05:22 is from somewhere else, you gotta kill them all.
• 05:24 Caleb: Yeah, wipe out all the Canaanites, but number three on
• 05:27 the list, one wife, that's it, guys, not multiple wives.
• 05:30 Don't collect them like trophies.
• 05:32 One man, one woman.
• 05:34 As you know, David messed up in this aspect in Solomon.
• 05:37 He just multiplied it by a hundred.
• 05:39 Joshua: I get it, Solomon, smartest man that ever lived.
• 05:42 Number one problem, mixing emotions and math.
• 05:44 It doesn't go together.
• 05:46 The Bible says he who finds a wife finds a good thing, it does
• 05:49 not say he who finds a thousand wives finds a good thing.
• 05:52 One wife, good, one-thousand wives, it's like bungee jumping
• 05:56 with a really long cord.
• 05:57 It doesn't work.
• 05:58 The thrill isn't better.
• 06:00 Joshua: Don't get chariots, collecting chariots of horses
• 06:03 and cavalry.
• 06:04 You say why?
• 06:05 Because to get these horses, first they'd have to return to
• 06:07 Egypt, which they've already been freed from, and second of
• 06:09 all, if it came to war, they would trust in the tools of man,
• 06:12 those chariots, instead of trusting in God.
• 06:14 Caleb: That's right, and rule number five, a king wasn't
• 06:17 supposed to gather gold and treasures for himself and living
• 06:20 in opulence.
• 06:21 It wasn't--it would elevate his head, make him think he was
• 06:24 lofty and better than everyone else.
• 06:26 Joshua: Not to be mean, but Solomon that kind of mess up on
• 06:28 every one of those fronts.
• 06:29 In fact, his queen, she was Egyptian, okay?
• 06:33 From all of the things, the mistakes that he made and all
• 06:35 the problems that happened, we see that after this, all of the
• 06:39 kings of Judah and Israel, they were always up and down with
• 06:44 their love and affection towards God, because after Solomon's
• 06:47 death it literally cut the country in half.
• 06:49 It divided them.
• 06:50 So, we need to go back now to Manasseh, who was the son
• 06:55 of the godly Hezekiah.
• 06:58 ♪♪♪
• 07:08 ♪♪♪
• 07:09 Joshua: You know, I'm gonna tell you, it's a little different,
• 07:12 things in Israel, some things.
• 07:13 When you go to the cemetery to visit your loved ones back home,
• 07:15 you see a headstone and they're below the ground, but if you can
• 07:18 see here, all these people are buried above the ground.
• 07:23 What's going on?
• 07:24 Are they worried about flooding, brother?
• 07:26 Caleb: No, I really think it's they pay a lot of money, and
• 07:28 they're like, hey, when Messiah comes, I wanna push ahead in
• 07:32 line, you know, like indulgences.
• 07:34 You get to pay to be first in line to go to heaven to get that
• 07:36 resurrected body.
• 07:38 That's sort of the mentality here.
• 07:39 Joshua: So, these are line cutters here at
• 07:40 the Mount of Olives.
• 07:42 Caleb: These are line cutters.
• 07:43 Joshua: They want to get to the line first because
• 07:45 they think that the Messiah will think they're a good guy
• 07:46 at life and let them to the front of the heaven line.
• 07:48 Caleb: I'm not lying.
• 07:52 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 33:3-7, "Manasseh rebuilt the
• 07:56 high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down.
• 07:59 He raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images,
• 08:02 and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
• 08:05 He also built altars in the house of the Lord and he built
• 08:08 altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the
• 08:11 house of the Lord.
• 08:13 And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley
• 08:15 of the Son of Hinnom.
• 08:17 He practiced soothsaying, using witchcraft and sorcery, and
• 08:20 consulted mediums and spiritist.
• 08:22 He did much evil on the side of the Lord to provoke him
• 08:25 to anger.
• 08:26 He even set the carved image of Asherah the idol, which he had
• 08:30 made in the house of God."
• 08:32 Joshua: Wow, that is quite the list of
• 08:33 accomplishments, brother.
• 08:35 I mean, I would call those failures, but okay.
• 08:37 All this happened in the Valley of Hinnom, and the Valley of
• 08:40 Hinnom is synonymous with Gehenna, which also means hell.
• 08:43 And in fact, in the Greek it's interchangeable at times.
• 08:45 This is one of three valleys that surrounded Jerusalem.
• 08:48 It was the city dump.
• 08:49 As you can see, they were continuously burning garbage
• 08:52 here, which is why you have all these fire marks on the walls.
• 08:54 Caleb: And for all you amazing interior decorators out there,
• 08:57 it doesn't matter how many house flipping shows you watch, you
• 09:01 can never beautify Gehenna.
• 09:03 Hell is hell.
• 09:05 Caleb: That's true, there's also a location here called Tophet.
• 09:09 It was a shrine, a holy place, a raised platform upon which they
• 09:13 officiated child sacrifice, first to the Phoenician goddess
• 09:17 Tanit, and also to the very famous hybrid bull
• 09:20 man-god Moloch.
• 09:22 Everybody knows about Moloch.
• 09:24 Well, Manasseh sacrificed his own son to Moloch, but it was
• 09:27 King Solomon who was guilty of importing this god.
• 09:31 It says here in 2 Kings 21:16, "Moreover Manasseh shed very
• 09:36 much innocent blood till he filled Jerusalem from one end
• 09:39 to another.
• 09:41 Besides his sin by which he made Judah to sin in doing evil in
• 09:45 the sight of the Lord."
• 09:46 Joshua: Amongst the blood of those innocents was the prophets
• 09:50 that Manasseh had killed.
• 09:51 He had them killed because they warned him of impending doom
• 09:55 because of his actions.
• 09:59 Joshua: Second Kings 21:10-12, "And the Lord spoke by his
• 10:04 servants the prophets, saying, 'Because Manasseh king of Judah
• 10:07 has done these abominations, behold, I am bringing such
• 10:10 calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it,
• 10:14 both his ears will tingle."
• 10:17 Caleb: Now, one of those prophets who warned Manasseh,
• 10:19 according to tradition, is the prophet Isaiah.
• 10:22 You know, in Hebrews 11:37 it talks about prophets being sawed
• 10:26 in half.
• 10:27 Well, the Jews believe that Manasseh took an 82-year-old
• 10:31 Prophet Isaiah into a hollowed out log and sawed him in
• 10:34 half lengthwise.
• 10:36 2 Kings 21:11 says, "He has acted more wickedly than all the
• 10:42 Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin
• 10:47 with his idols."
• 10:49 Joshua: The fact of the matter is, he led the people to sin
• 10:51 because they emulated him.
• 10:52 It's a shame, because his father was mostly a righteous man, but
• 10:56 he began his co-regency with Hezekiah at age 12.
• 10:59 Hezekiah had a time limit put on his life because God said it's
• 11:02 time to get your house in order.
• 11:03 But because he humbled himself, God gave him exactly 15
• 11:06 more years.
• 11:08 But even though 15 years of teachings happened, Hezekiah and
• 11:11 Manasseh, it didn't change them.
• 11:12 Caleb: It didn't change his son, and Hezekiah did a foolish thing
• 11:15 at the end of his life because he accepted an envoy from King
• 11:18 Baladan II of Babylon.
• 11:20 He was in an on-and-off-again war for Syria, struggling for
• 11:22 independence, and Hezekiah showed him all the treasures and
• 11:25 royal storehouses of the temple, and that was foolish to show
• 11:29 your future enemy.
• 11:30 And Isaiah the prophet was sent to Hezekiah to warn him, you
• 11:32 messed up and this is what's gonna happen because you
• 11:35 messed up.
• 11:36 Joshua: He never showed him all the money.
• 11:37 Caleb: Isaiah 39:6-7, "The time will surely come when everything
• 11:42 in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up
• 11:45 until this day will be carried off to Babylon.
• 11:47 Nothing will be left, says the Lord, and some of your
• 11:50 descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to, you
• 11:53 will be taken away and they will become eunuchs in the palace of
• 11:56 the king of Babylon."
• 11:58 Joshua: As you know, Nebuchadnezzar, this type of
• 12:00 Antichrist, fulfilled prophecy when he more than likely had
• 12:03 Daniel and his friends castrated.
• 12:06 Joshua: I don't know exactly who formed the union of felt board
• 12:09 police who said what can't be in a felt Bible story, but I've
• 12:12 never seen this on the felt board on a Sunday.
• 12:14 To be honest, I'm kind of happy.
• 12:16 It would freak me out to see those things in felt and
• 12:18 watch Nebuchadnezzar.
• 12:23 Joshua: But Manasseh would get a taste of this judgment, just a
• 12:26 brief glance, when God's times table of mercy ran out.
• 12:29 2 Chronicles 33:11 says, "Therefore the Lord brought upon
• 12:33 the captains of the army of the kings of Assyria which took
• 12:36 Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried
• 12:38 him to Babylon."
• 12:40 Caleb: Now, some genius Hebrew scholars by calculating the year
• 12:43 of Jubilees has estimated that Manasseh was prisoned in
• 12:46 Babylon for nine years, some say two years, but this didn't count
• 12:50 into his 55-year rule of reign.
• 12:52 We know that Esarhaddon, the son of Sennacherib, was credited
• 12:56 with capturing Manasseh and bringing him to Babylon.
• 12:58 And there's a famous victory stele that shows Esarhaddon, you
• 13:03 know, holding this--choking this king of Egypt, and then it
• 13:07 shows the semitic looking king Manasseh with a hook in his jaw
• 13:10 being drug off to Babylon.
• 13:14 Joshua: You may wonder why brother and I are under this
• 13:15 umbrella of sorts as we walk through Jerusalem.
• 13:18 We were told that we were starting to go beyond Jewish,
• 13:21 our skin was getting too dark.
• 13:23 They didn't want any confusion with what we might look like
• 13:25 next, so we decided to keep our tone at this exact spot for the
• 13:28 rest of the series that we're filming.
• 13:30 It's called continuity, and you'll thank us later when it
• 13:32 makes sense.
• 13:34 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 says, "Now when, he,
• 13:39 Manasseh was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God and
• 13:43 humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and
• 13:46 prayed to him, and he received his entreaty, heard his
• 13:50 supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into
• 13:52 his kingdom.
• 13:54 Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."
• 13:59 Caleb: According to Ezekiel 18, Manasseh's end of life
• 14:02 repentance gained him access into Abraham's bosom, because
• 14:05 it's the final state of a man's life that matters.
• 14:08 And you look at all of this sin that he did, God did forgive him
• 14:13 of his sin, but there's still consequences to sin, how it
• 14:16 affected his relationships, his children, his family, and even
• 14:19 his nation.
• 14:21 And we see that his son Ammon turns pure evil, even after
• 14:24 Manasseh was cleansing the land at the end of his life.
• 14:26 Joshua: The greatest tragedy is probably the fact that Manasseh
• 14:29 had all the Torah scrolls burned, books of the law.
• 14:32 He was trying to control the information, the flow of it.
• 14:35 Doesn't sound too different than "Fahrenheit 451" if you ask me,
• 14:38 and isn't the media doing that today, trying to make sure that
• 14:41 nobody gets to hear God, righteousness, and the truth?
• 14:46 Caleb: Deuteronomy 17:18-20 explains that it is the king's
• 14:49 job to write his own personal copy of the Torah to lead him
• 14:53 successfully in life through following God's laws.
• 14:55 How quickly has that abandonment of God's Word led to our
• 14:58 destruction today?
• 15:04 It's interesting that one of the things that modern man always
• 15:07 prides himself on is his advancements.
• 15:10 Each generation has something to benefit the future generation.
• 15:13 They say look what we did.
• 15:15 Well, not unlike Manasseh in the past, today's generation
• 15:18 likes to pride themselves on escaping the tyrannies of
• 15:21 absolute truth.
• 15:22 I mean, you see it with all individuals today that they have
• 15:27 a mantra that everyone wants to go by, find your own truth.
• 15:31 This is no different from Judges 21:25 that said, "There was no
• 15:35 king in Israel and everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
• 15:39 Joshua: This idea of absolute truth being a problem is the
• 15:43 idea that it forms a criticism and a hate.
• 15:46 That if we were to speak a truth that everyone has to adhere to,
• 15:49 then this would hurt people's feelings.
• 15:51 This has been the cause of people to be bullied and the
• 15:53 cause of people to receive hate crimes over the years.
• 15:56 The problem with this is, even though the marketing sounds
• 15:59 fantastic for find your own truth and makes you want to lock
• 16:01 arms with everybody and sing "Kumbaya," who does it
• 16:05 stand against?
• 16:06 Who's the truth that you're opposing that's absolute?
• 16:08 Well, the truth is God and the truth is his Word and the truth
• 16:11 is Torah.
• 16:13 So, when you say there is no absolute truth, what you're
• 16:15 saying is there is no absolute God, there is no Messiah that I
• 16:19 have to listen to.
• 16:21 And so, that right off the bat can't be done.
• 16:24 Now, you say next to me, well, it's not as bad as it's been
• 16:26 with Manasseh, we're not burning the Bible like he did, burning
• 16:30 the Torah scrolls, but what have we done today?
• 16:32 We've used our technology.
• 16:33 ChatGPT is being used currently to change scriptures, to alter
• 16:38 them to make things like homosexuality okay, to make
• 16:41 things like changing your gender okay.
• 16:43 All these different hot topic and buzzwords of the day where
• 16:46 we're allowed to do anything we want, say anything we want, and
• 16:49 be what we want to be, but Josh, that's nothing new.
• 16:52 You're right, it's nothing new.
• 16:53 Well, there's nothing we can do about it then.
• 16:56 That's the biggest misconception.
• 16:58 When you hear people say it's not my place to judge, we have
• 17:02 to sit and be quiet, I believe my thing, they believe their
• 17:05 thing, but the Bible says something pretty specific
• 17:07 about that.
• 17:08 In 2 Chronicles 16:9 it says, "For the eyes of the Lord run to
• 17:12 and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on
• 17:15 behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him."
• 17:18 Our job, according to the Bible, is to look at the fruits coming
• 17:22 from each person.
• 17:23 The Bible says you're gonna know them by their fruits.
• 17:25 It's not a judgment call to call out and say that's not truth,
• 17:28 we're not placing any form of punishment on them, we're simply
• 17:31 holding them to the standard of the Word of God.
• 17:34 Caleb: Amen.
• 17:37 [singing in Hebrew]
• 17:48 Caleb: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and
• 17:52 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
• 17:56 your soul and with all your strength.
• 17:59 ♪♪♪
• 18:05 Joshua: We recently met Denise Mountenay, who is now a
• 18:07 dear friend.
• 18:09 Together for Life Ministries.
• 18:10 This woman goes before the United Nations to advocate
• 18:12 against abortion and explain the horrors of it to stand for life.
• 18:15 She's an amazing woman.
• 18:17 Caleb: And she's written a book called "The Bride, The Serpent,
• 18:20 & The Seed," and when I sat down to have a conversation with her,
• 18:24 I had her lay out the connections, the parallels
• 18:27 between child sacrifice of yesteryears with the Kingdom of
• 18:30 Judah and really what abortion is today.
• 18:33 There's not much of a difference.
• 18:34 Listen to what she has to say about it.
• 18:37 Denise Mountenay: Oh, exactly, like, you know, we're thinking
• 18:40 we're helping--the the doctors and the government and whoever
• 18:45 is promoting it, they think they're helping women.
• 18:48 They are not helping women and they are killing children
• 18:52 created in the image of God.
• 18:53 It's so defiling.
• 18:55 One of the things, you know, that really struck me is how
• 18:59 even Israel is shedding innocent blood through abortions.
• 19:05 Caleb: Israel today, modern Israel.
• 19:07 Denise: So right now they are doing 30,000 to 40,000 abortions
• 19:13 on Jewish children before birth, and to me, of all the people in
• 19:18 the world, they are the least that should be doing this.
• 19:22 But Satan is the father of lies, murderer from the beginning, has
• 19:26 so deceived our generation, and so they are just deceived like
• 19:29 everyone else.
• 19:30 But here's the thing, this evil spirit of kill the unwanted
• 19:35 Jews, of enslave the black people, kill the unwanted Jews
• 19:40 is the same spirit, kill the unwanted children today in
• 19:45 our generation.
• 19:47 Caleb: Same demons behind it.
• 19:48 Denise: Same demons.
• 19:50 Caleb: It's so insidious that people--it really is a sacrifice
• 19:54 to demon gods.
• 19:55 They are demanding the murder, the death of God's chosen
• 20:00 people, of Jewish people that could change the world.
• 20:04 We're outnumbered, the Jewish people are greatly outnumbered
• 20:06 in the world, and our enemies are plenteous.
• 20:09 And even on October 7th, the pain of, you know, 1,200 plus
• 20:15 Jews died, but why give them up willingly?
• 20:18 Joshua: And Caleb, one thing the Lord showed me is whenever a
• 20:21 man, a woman, a doctor, or a nation comes into an agreement
• 20:28 with abortion, we are coming into an agreement with the
• 20:32 spirit of murder and death.
• 20:35 At 26, I was in another relationship, I thought this is
• 20:40 the guy, you know, I just really wanted, like most women, I just
• 20:43 wanted to meet a nice guy, get married, and have a family.
• 20:47 We'd been going out for several months, and I got pregnant
• 20:52 with him.
• 20:54 Now, I'd been on the pill, it gave me bad side effects, I'd
• 20:56 had an IUD, put me in a hospital with an infection, and anyway, I
• 21:02 get pregnant with him.
• 21:03 So, when the doctor told me that I was pregnant, I was like, we
• 21:09 figured out it was probably around eight or nine weeks.
• 21:12 I said, what's there, what's developed?
• 21:14 And the doctor took a piece of paper, he put a little dot on
• 21:16 the page, and he said it's nothing, it's just a blob
• 21:20 of tissue.
• 21:21 So, I'm thinking, oh, okay, he's the doctor, so I'm thinking no
• 21:25 big deal, and he said it's a very safe procedure, you know,
• 21:29 clump of tissue, so I believed him because he was the doctor.
• 21:33 And when I told that boyfriend that I was pregnant, well, he
• 21:38 went in a fit of rage, "You better have an abortion, I never
• 21:42 wanna see you again."
• 21:44 He made me leave his house, you know, and I was devastated.
• 21:49 Here I thought, you know, he really cared about me and loved
• 21:52 me, and so this happened, whoops, but anyway, and I
• 21:56 thought, well, you know, so I went and had the second
• 21:59 abortion, but the second abortion, Caleb, was done in a
• 22:03 Buffalo, New York abortion clinic, wide awake, and it was
• 22:10 the most excruciating, painful thing that I had ever gone
• 22:14 through in my life.
• 22:16 It actually felt like I was being raped again.
• 22:21 That's how abortion felt.
• 22:22 I remember crying and begging the abortion doctor, "Stop it,
• 22:27 stop it, I changed my mind.
• 22:28 I don't wanna do this."
• 22:30 You know, he's like, too late, you know, and just be quiet,
• 22:33 shut up, you know, oh, it was horrible.
• 22:37 And when it was over, you know, I just curled up into a fetal
• 22:41 position, I felt like my brain had snapped, I just was
• 22:46 basket case.
• 22:47 And it was just so traumatic, and then I had an infection, I
• 22:52 got damaged cervix, I got badly scarred uterus.
• 22:56 I ended up having two lumps removed from my left breast and
• 23:01 never was informed about all of the risks or how this would
• 23:06 damage my life.
• 23:07 You know, that this is the most horrible thing a woman could
• 23:10 ever do in her life, and yet God forgives us.
• 23:15 Caleb: Yes, he does.
• 23:16 Denise: It's so amazing.
• 23:18 ♪♪♪
• 23:22 Kirsten: You will notice throughout the whole series that
• 23:25 the Colson brothers, the Bearded Bible Brothers, are in Israel
• 23:28 filming, and this was an interesting time to be in the
• 23:33 land filming, right?
• 23:34 Goodness, big time war broke out.
• 23:37 Joshua: It really started out just like normal until
• 23:39 it wasn't.
• 23:41 Caleb: I mean, we film out a sequence just so people know, it
• 23:43 saves money, we go to one location and then another, so we
• 23:46 had filmed half the series before the war began, then the
• 23:49 war began and we filmed the other half.
• 23:51 And so, things may seem disjointed our our sequence, but
• 23:53 God knew exactly what was up.
• 23:55 Because when you have these moments at the end of each
• 23:58 episode, we call them come to Jesus moments where it's in a
• 24:01 modern setting versus, like, the old, ancient setting, all of
• 24:04 those were shot after the war started.
• 24:06 So, we're teaching these segments about repentance,
• 24:09 judgment is coming, you know, the cycles of Israel and Judah
• 24:13 falling into sin, and we were living it out before our
• 24:15 very eyes.
• 24:17 It was sobering.
• 24:18 This message was hand selected by God for a very
• 24:21 important purpose.
• 24:22 Everybody thinks that the Israeli people, the Jews,
• 24:24 they're automatically gonna believe in the God of Abraham,
• 24:27 Isaac, and Jacob.
• 24:28 That's not always the case.
• 24:30 Statistically, we get some different information.
• 24:31 We have a poll here, 2022 statistics, and the Israeli
• 24:36 population says 73% adhere to Judaism, and you have 18%
• 24:40 Muslims, you have Christians, Druze, and all that, but within
• 24:43 that 73%, a 2015 Gallup poll explained that only 65%,
• 24:49 actually 65% of the 73% are secular.
• 24:53 They are either atheist, they are, you know, not quite
• 24:58 religious, they don't, you know, go to synagogue.
• 25:00 It's only a very small percentage, 30% that are
• 25:03 actually religious.
• 25:04 Jews, they just call themselves, you know, I adhere to Judaism,
• 25:08 but they truly don't believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac,
• 25:11 and Jacob.
• 25:12 Kirsten: So, that almost parallels with the time
• 25:15 of Josiah.
• 25:16 It's fascinating, isn't it, that you brought this topic up?
• 25:20 That you said, okay, let's, or not you, but God put it on your
• 25:23 heart to speak about, so we're paralleling Josiah's time with
• 25:28 our time in modern.
• 25:30 Joshua: We are, because in Josiah's time, they were
• 25:34 literally about to be taken into exile.
• 25:36 They had fallen into idolatry and sin in all different kinds
• 25:39 of ways, and we look at the world today, we've been on this
• 25:43 planet for a long time, and yet we haven't seemed to figure out
• 25:46 how to avoid sin and sin keeps creeping in and it used to be
• 25:50 something that was done in the dark and now it's something
• 25:51 that's become very public.
• 25:53 But not just on the individual level, our nations now support
• 25:56 all different kinds of sin.
• 25:58 They remove the heritage from the government that we were
• 26:01 founded, on taking the Ten Commandments out, advocating for
• 26:04 so many things that are against the Bible, and so just in this
• 26:07 period of time where Josiah stands up and says enough is
• 26:10 enough, it's time to repent, that's the message that God gave
• 26:13 us for this series.
• 26:15 That today is the day that one man, one woman, can make
• 26:18 a difference.
• 26:19 One person taking a stand for truth today can usher in
• 26:22 repentance not only for you, but it can spiral on to the
• 26:25 generation around you.
• 26:27 So, we wanna start today by leading everyone in this prayer
• 26:30 right now, a prayer of repentance beginning in your
• 26:33 life and the life of your family.
• 26:35 So, dear heavenly Father, for myself and for my family in ways
• 26:38 that we have allowed in anything to take precedence over you,
• 26:42 I repent as the head of my household for that, and ask that
• 26:46 you would wash us clean from those.
• 26:48 And for everyone watching, I pray that the Holy Spirit would
• 26:50 motivate and show them the things that need to be out of
• 26:52 their life, so that they can be set free.
• 26:55 Instead of being a generation that is pummeled by sin, we are
• 26:57 one that will stand for truth.
• 26:59 In the name of Yeshua we pray, amen.
• 27:02 David: Guys, thanks for your teaching today.
• 27:04 We'll be right back.
• 27:06 David: Our resources this week, two books by Christian historian
• 27:09 David Barton.
• 27:11 First, "America's Godly Heritage."
• 27:13 This book details what the founding fathers
• 27:16 intended for America and what can be done
• 27:18 to return to its original guiding philosophy,
• 27:21 or "The Bulletproof George Washington,"
• 27:24 in this riveting account of God's providence
• 27:26 and protection of the young soldier
• 27:28 who later became our first president.
• 27:31 Contact us for more information.
• 27:35 David: Before our program started today, I was talking
• 27:37 with the Bearded Bible Brothers about future programs that they
• 27:40 have in their mind, in their hearts.
• 27:42 They wanna bring those to you.
• 27:43 We'd like to bring those to you and we can't do that without
• 27:46 your financial support.
• 27:48 So, we just wanna say thank you so much.
• 27:49 Guys, what's coming up next?
• 27:51 Joshua: Next week, tell him, tell him.
• 27:53 Caleb: Josiah the boy king.
• 27:54 What's life like being an eight-year-old king?
• 27:56 He had a lot of opposition, but I believe God backed him every
• 27:59 step of the way and set him up to be the amazing ruler that we
• 28:03 all know about.
• 28:04 David: Gonna be good.
• 28:05 Joshua: It is, so as we say, "Speaking in Hebrew."
• 28:07 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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