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• 00:01 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much
• 00:08 for joining us today for our series "Josiah and the Last Reformation."
• 00:10 Kirsten Hart: On today's program, you'll see that Babylon
• 00:13 is on a rampage.
• 00:14 Things are not looking good for the kingdom of Judah.
• 00:17 David: Josiah was a young boy king, how in the world is he
• 00:20 gonna turn things around?
• 00:21 Kirsten: We'll find out today as we go on location in Jerusalem
• 00:26 with the Bearded Bible Brothers who are right now on the
• 00:29 Southern Steps.
• 00:31 ♪♪♪
• 00:41 ♪♪♪
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 01:01 Joshua Colson: We are here at a familiar spot if you have
• 01:04 frequented "Our Jewish Roots," this is the Southern Steps.
• 01:08 Now, this angle, this perspective, is the one you
• 01:10 usually see on the show, and right here we have first
• 01:13 century structures.
• 01:14 These are structures that Jesus himself, Yeshua, walked amongst.
• 01:17 Caleb Colson: That's right, now let's arc around here, change
• 01:22 your perspective.
• 01:23 There's ruins all the way down this location, crazy ruins.
• 01:27 You know, Jerusalem is layers of layers of civilization stacked
• 01:31 on top of each other because of war, invasion, and all
• 01:35 these fire.
• 01:36 You you never know, but there's multiple layers, multiple
• 01:39 time periods.
• 01:41 When they dig away more of the dirt, you start to reveal more
• 01:43 of a history.
• 01:44 This behind us is called the Ophel.
• 01:46 It's actually from the first temple period, and they just
• 01:50 recently made a lot of discoveries and found very
• 01:53 important archaeological evidence in the Ophel.
• 01:56 Joshua: See, the Ophel is a fortified position right here.
• 01:59 It's a stronghold, and it was usually of significance within
• 02:04 the kingdom.
• 02:05 So, you had down here at the bottom, the fortified bakery,
• 02:08 you had the watch tower, you had the gate house.
• 02:11 In fact, if you go down there, you can even see some of the
• 02:14 original wall of Solomon that he built down there.
• 02:17 Caleb: And what's interesting is in those locations Josh was just
• 02:21 talking about, they recently discovered a bulla seal.
• 02:25 A bulla seal is a clay seal, you've heard of a signet ring of
• 02:28 authority of the king, they would stamp in the seal and
• 02:31 verify the authority of a document that they were sending
• 02:33 to someone.
• 02:34 Well, they discovered the bulla seal of King Hezekiah, the great
• 02:38 grandfather of Josiah.
• 02:41 And in that same location, guess who else they found?
• 02:44 The bulla seal of the prophet Isaiah.
• 02:46 Now, if that doesn't verify the authenticity of the Bible,
• 02:50 I don't know what will.
• 02:55 Joshua: Second Chronicles 33:21-23, "Amon was twenty-two
• 02:59 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem
• 03:03 two years.
• 03:04 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh
• 03:06 had done.
• 03:08 Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all the idols
• 03:10 Manasseh had made, but unlike his father Manasseh, he did not
• 03:13 humble himself before the Lord.
• 03:15 Amon increased his guilt."
• 03:18 Joshua: The most influential time period in a person's life
• 03:21 is his childhood, and that's why Satan tries so hard to affect
• 03:26 people with their kids.
• 03:28 You see Manasseh's son Amon grew up seeing his father commit
• 03:31 unpardonable abominations and leading the entire nation
• 03:34 into sin.
• 03:36 It's weird, because Manasseh grew up seeing his father
• 03:38 Hezekiah honor the Lord.
• 03:40 Caleb: And so, Amon's hero, probably his father, for most
• 03:44 kids, he saw his father murder his own big brother and commit
• 03:50 these perverse sinful acts and sorcery and magic.
• 03:53 What effect do you think that has on a child growing up and
• 03:57 seeing those sort of things and it being rationalized as
• 04:01 being good?
• 04:03 I'm sure that's what jacked up Amon.
• 04:05 And then you had Manasseh taking off into Babylon into
• 04:08 captivity and he's left there all alone.
• 04:11 By the time his father returns, he's already gone full apostate.
• 04:16 Manasseh starts reforming the kingdom and Amon's heart is
• 04:19 still impure from what he saw his father do.
• 04:22 Manasseh didn't have the Torah scrolls, he burned them, so even
• 04:26 the reformation he did toward the end of his life didn't
• 04:29 change Amon's heart.
• 04:31 And so, we see after Manasseh's death, Amon was full wickedness,
• 04:35 and by the age of 23 he was assassinated by his own
• 04:39 royal officials.
• 04:40 This was the age that Josiah was eight years old.
• 04:44 Two years Amon ruled, and then Josiah becomes king.
• 04:53 Joshua: Second Chronicles 33:24-25, "Amon's officials
• 04:56 conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
• 04:59 Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted
• 05:02 against King Amon and they made Josiah his son king in
• 05:05 his place."
• 05:09 Caleb: Using scripture to kind of develop timing for Amon's
• 05:13 life, we believe he was probably married around the age of
• 05:16 puberty, because we know he had his first son, Josiah, at the
• 05:21 age of 15.
• 05:22 Joshua: No, I know, I've read the Bible, I know Josiah had his
• 05:24 first kid at 15, I know other people in the Bible, they had
• 05:26 kids crazy young, but 15 year olds today, not 15 year olds in
• 05:29 the Bible.
• 05:31 They can barely name themselves on their nerdy internet
• 05:32 video games.
• 05:33 I'm sharazar87_6.
• 05:35 Underscore is not a part of a name, sorry, you fail.
• 05:38 Caleb: So, let that sink in for a minute, a 15-year-old
• 05:42 with a kid.
• 05:43 He's in his rebellious teenage years, he wants to go out and
• 05:45 have fun.
• 05:46 I don't think he was involved in Josiah's upbringing.
• 05:48 It could have been Josiah's mother, his wet nurses, or more
• 05:51 probably what I believe, Manasseh.
• 05:54 Joshua: We can see proof that it's probably Manasseh's reform,
• 05:57 because by the age of eight, Josiah had already inclined his
• 06:01 ear to God, and we definitely know that didn't come from his
• 06:04 wayward father.
• 06:05 Caleb: So, this was in the later years of Manasseh's life when he
• 06:07 turned to God.
• 06:09 That's probably what affected Josiah's heart.
• 06:15 Caleb: Second Chronicles 34:1-2, "Josiah was eight years old when
• 06:20 he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
• 06:23 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed
• 06:26 the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right
• 06:30 or to the left."
• 06:32 Caleb: When Josiah first came to power, the hearts of the people
• 06:36 were split as well as their mentality of who God really was.
• 06:41 Though the temple still stood upon that mount up there, they
• 06:45 also had shrines everywhere to these pagan gods.
• 06:49 You know, Manasseh had built many of these shrines in these
• 06:53 high places, then he destroyed them near the end of his life.
• 06:57 Amon his son rebuilt them, but even amongst all that, there
• 07:01 were high places that King Solomon had built on a hill of
• 07:05 corruption, even during the reforms of King Hezekiah and the
• 07:09 end-of-life reforms of Manasseh remained untouched.
• 07:12 We still don't know why.
• 07:13 Joshua: I know why, because people are pervs.
• 07:16 Hey, Baba, we supposed to tear down the sex temple up here?
• 07:19 I don't think Josiah meant that one.
• 07:21 Definitely keep the sex temple for now.
• 07:23 For now, for now, close it off, put some yellow tape on there,
• 07:25 you perve.
• 07:27 Joshua: Josiah grew up in a time of political uncertainty, not
• 07:30 much different than the time we are in now, 70 years plus prior
• 07:35 to when Israel was completely decimated by the Assyrian army
• 07:39 and taken into captivity as the prophets had foretold.
• 07:43 Hosea 13:16 says, "Samaria is held guilty, for she has
• 07:47 rebelled against her God.
• 07:49 They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed
• 07:51 into pieces, and their women with child ripped open."
• 07:54 Hezekiah, by God's strong hand, barely escaped this brutal
• 07:58 attack, but Manasseh, he was held into captivity for years.
• 08:02 Now, imagine being this tiny little nation that was
• 08:04 surrounded by people who had been literally destroyed by the
• 08:08 greatest force that the planet had ever seen before.
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• 08:17 Caleb: In the midst of all this turmoil and strife, there are
• 08:20 many nations, including Babylon, that were struggling for
• 08:23 independence under Assyria's iron grip.
• 08:26 I believe Josiah had a little sense of what was to come,
• 08:30 because there are still legends that were spoken about of
• 08:33 prophets from times past who gave the word of the Lord,
• 08:36 including the prophet Isaiah who foretold that Babylon
• 08:39 was coming.
• 08:40 Joshua: Josiah's only sense of right and wrong had to have come
• 08:42 from Manasseh's final teaching, but yet he still didn't have
• 08:45 the law.
• 08:47 We had evidence of this, because, well, he took
• 08:48 two wives.
• 08:49 Caleb: Alright, two wives is bad.
• 08:52 Not quite Mormon bad, but nothing compared to Solomon bad
• 08:55 to actually to get his own unit of measurement.
• 08:59 Joshua: He took his first wife after puberty at age 12,
• 09:01 Hamutal, and he took his second wife, Zebudah, after that.
• 09:05 Caleb: First Chronicles 3:15, "The sons of Josiah: Johanan the
• 09:10 firstborn, Jehoiakim the second son, Zedekiah the third, and
• 09:15 Shallum the fourth."
• 09:18 Joshua: Now, you're probably asking yourself how could
• 09:20 anybody in their right mind let an eight year old run a kingdom
• 09:24 or do matters of the state?
• 09:25 I mean, they can barely run mathematics.
• 09:28 Here's the deal, Joash was actually the youngest king of
• 09:31 Judah at age seven, so Josiah actually had years of training
• 09:36 that he went through before he was given the right to rule the
• 09:40 matters of the state, so the title was mostly ceremonial
• 09:42 at first.
• 09:43 He had advisors, so he had the elders of the senate, he had the
• 09:46 governor of Jerusalem, he had the high priest.
• 09:48 Caleb: That's true, his inner circle helped raise him and
• 09:52 attend to matters of state.
• 09:54 We know Achbor was his right hand man and also trained him in
• 09:57 the ways of God.
• 09:59 Hilkiah the high priest, Asaiah, who was the governor
• 10:04 of a region.
• 10:05 Even Shaphan the royal secretary took part in these
• 10:08 day-to-day matters of his life, and we know these people
• 10:12 were real.
• 10:13 Once again, as you see around us, we're in these ruins, and
• 10:16 discoveries have been made in all these ruins verifying these
• 10:18 people, their sons, Hilkiah, his son Azariah, royal seal, bulla
• 10:23 was discovered for him, and even Shaphan the secretary, his son
• 10:27 Gemariah was discovered here, the bulla of his seal, so this
• 10:30 is very important and it authenticates what the
• 10:33 Bible says.
• 10:36 Caleb: Second Chronicles 34:3, "In the eighth year of his
• 10:39 reign, while he was still young, he, Josiah began to seek the God
• 10:43 of his father David."
• 10:48 Joshua: Josiah in Hebrew is Yoshi-yahu, meaning Yahweh
• 10:52 supports and heals.
• 10:53 By age 16, God had already started setting up Josiah to be
• 10:58 able to hear him, to be able to succeed, to be ready for what he
• 11:01 needed to do.
• 11:02 It was at this point that Josiah sensed something was wrong and
• 11:06 he began to ask the questions what needed to be done?
• 11:09 What event do you think took place that led Josiah to
• 11:11 believing that something was wrong?
• 11:13 Caleb: You know, with certainty we know Zephaniah the prophet
• 11:17 begin to prophesy before Josiah's reforms.
• 11:20 Now, Zephaniah had access to the royal inner circle.
• 11:24 He was royalty, he was a prince, he was a great, great grandson
• 11:28 of King Hezekiah, Josiah being the great grandson of
• 11:32 King Hezekiah.
• 11:33 So, I find this very interesting, that, you know,
• 11:35 Josiah didn't have any other direction than these prophetic
• 11:39 words to know that he had to do something and he had to cleanse
• 11:43 the land.
• 11:46 Caleb: Second Chronicles 34:3, "In his twelfth year, he, Josiah
• 11:51 began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places,
• 11:55 Asherah poles and idols."
• 12:01 Joshua: So, why didn't Josiah begin all of his reforms before
• 12:04 the age of 20?
• 12:06 Well, because legally he couldn't.
• 12:07 The law stated that you were not legally an adult until you're 20
• 12:10 years old.
• 12:12 God defined this by allowing everyone under the age of 20
• 12:15 a free pass to get into the Promised Land.
• 12:17 Now, at 13 you became a man, physically, spiritually, you
• 12:20 were bar mitzvahed, but it wasn't until 20 years old you
• 12:22 were allowed to go to war or that you were held responsible
• 12:25 as an adult in a court of law.
• 12:27 Caleb: So, you can see that Josiah was probably counting the
• 12:30 days, the hours and moments until he was unleashed and he
• 12:33 could go idol smashing.
• 12:34 He knew at the age of 20 he could go out in full force and
• 12:38 have full authority of kingship.
• 12:39 And then at the age of 20, he goes into reformation overdrive.
• 12:45 Caleb: Now, only if they would have had idol smashing as
• 12:47 an elective in college, then I would have had it made.
• 12:52 Caleb: It's a miracle this fatherless boy became a man
• 12:54 of God.
• 12:56 I'm sure Satan was laying snare after snare get him to fall
• 12:58 into sin.
• 13:00 Even today, we see how the enemy tries to indoctrinate children
• 13:05 so he can have a hold of their mind when they become adults
• 13:08 if he owns them.
• 13:10 You see, children at a young age already, since prayer was taken
• 13:14 out of school and the Bible, they don't have the influence
• 13:18 they need to anymore.
• 13:20 Even in your synagogues, in your churches, you're not hearing the
• 13:23 Word of God in truth and in power, and the question is
• 13:27 what's gonna happen to those children?
• 13:29 How can we save their minds from the perversion of the enemy?
• 13:33 It's a well documented fact in child development that what
• 13:36 happens to a child up to the age seven is crucial in their
• 13:40 developmental process.
• 13:41 Greek philosopher Aristotle said give me your child until he's
• 13:44 seven and I'll show you the man.
• 13:46 What we show a kid and what we expose our children to now is
• 13:50 what will shape their belief system and potentially who they
• 13:53 become in their adult years.
• 13:55 Now, in the 1950's and 1960's, the content and programming that
• 13:59 was on television was completely different than what's on now,
• 14:03 and for some reason in America, we seem infatuated with the idea
• 14:06 of robbing the innocence of youth.
• 14:08 The statement I hear all this time is it's not that bad, as
• 14:11 opposed to saying, "Oh, we shouldn't show them this,
• 14:13 there's no good in it."
• 14:15 Now, before you get all mad at me, and say, "Josh, I don't show
• 14:18 my kids bad stuff."
• 14:20 That's fine, I understand that, I do, I know that you as
• 14:23 believers would never show your children any programming that
• 14:26 has magic, sex, profanity, fantasy, violence, superheroes.
• 14:33 No, we never--well, I guess that doesn't count for just about all
• 14:37 the programing today.
• 14:38 But trust me, the enemy is a chess player and he's actually
• 14:42 not super concerned with you exposing them to bad things,
• 14:44 he's just fine with you letting 'em be.
• 14:47 How about this?
• 14:49 Your kid comes up and says, "Hey dad, can we play?"
• 14:52 "Not right now, honey, you know what?
• 14:55 I gotta work right now, but as soon as I'm done, why don't you
• 14:57 go over and watch something on TV?"
• 15:00 You say, "I'm not an absent parent, I'm here," but you're
• 15:03 here in peripheral.
• 15:05 You can see your kid out of the left, you can see your kid out
• 15:07 of the right, but you haven't made the time for them.
• 15:09 I know you may be upset about this, you say, "I have to work,
• 15:12 I have to make a living, I'm providing for my family."
• 15:15 You gotta realize you have such a short window of time right now
• 15:19 to educate your children, to take part in their life.
• 15:23 When a child looks back at their life, they look at the quantity
• 15:25 of the amount of time you spent with them, not the quality, and
• 15:28 they're like, "Oh, there was that one moment dad was with
• 15:30 me," or, "no, dad was always there.
• 15:32 I could always have that time with him."
• 15:34 And in Psalm 127:3, "Behold, children are a heritage from the
• 15:39 Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward."
• 15:43 Joshua: Guys, your children just weren't a gift from God, but
• 15:46 they were a responsibility.
• 15:48 This is something I think about often, a gift is something that
• 15:50 you use at your leisure, that you play with, that you put on
• 15:53 a shelf, but a responsibility is something that comes with
• 15:56 a requirement, and that means that whatever happens in your
• 15:59 children's life, the buck stops with you.
• 16:02 It's not the responsibility of your school to raise
• 16:04 your children.
• 16:05 It's not the responsibility of your church or your synagogue
• 16:08 to raise your children.
• 16:09 The responsibility and the education, the upbringing of
• 16:12 both the understanding and the fear and the wisdom of the Lord,
• 16:16 and anything that your children have comes from you.
• 16:20 I understand that we all live busy lives, that we have jobs
• 16:23 and responsibilities, that we have to put food on the table,
• 16:25 and that takes work and that takes money, but then if that's
• 16:28 the case, and the only obstacle standing in your way of you
• 16:32 being there for your children when they need you in those
• 16:34 pivotal moments, it's time to ask the Holy Spirit this
• 16:37 question, "Holy Spirit, since I've been given this
• 16:40 responsibility, and this is truly what the Father wants,
• 16:42 show me how to maximize my time.
• 16:44 Give me different opportunities.
• 16:45 If this job is taking me from my children, give me a job where
• 16:47 I can be with them."
• 16:48 Don't just mark it off as "this is the way I take care of my
• 16:52 children is money alone," because when that becomes the
• 16:55 sole focus, then you have a world driven by Satan very much
• 17:00 ready to raise your children up in his ways instead of the ways
• 17:04 of the Father.
• 17:05 We may not all turn out to be like Manasseh, I hope you don't,
• 17:08 I hope that your kids have a much better upbringing, even if
• 17:11 you're not able to be there, but you are not allowed at any point
• 17:15 to sit there and say my hands are tied, it wasn't my fault.
• 17:19 It is your responsibility.
• 17:21 Today is the day you can change.
• 17:23 Today is the day you can be better.
• 17:24 It's not a time to give up, it's a time to raise up and be the
• 17:28 example that your children need.
• 17:34 [singing in Hebrew]
• 17:43 Caleb: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and
• 17:48 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
• 17:52 your soul, with all your strength."
• 17:56 Caleb: Guys, today we have the opportunity to hear from
• 18:00 Dr. Todd Baker of Brit-Hadashah Ministries.
• 18:02 Todd has been a friend of Zola Levitt Ministries for decades,
• 18:06 all the way back to the Zola Levitt years.
• 18:08 He actually started the To the Jew First Mission Fund, in which
• 18:11 he and other people go to Israel and actually evangelize to the
• 18:15 Jewish people.
• 18:16 It's absolutely amazing.
• 18:18 Joshua: It's amazing because today he's talking about how
• 18:20 different after October 7 the people in Israel are in their
• 18:23 reception to the gospel.
• 18:25 You really want to hear about what's happening right now.
• 18:28 Dr. Todd Baker: With God it's not numbers, with God it's
• 18:31 people who will repent and turn to him for salvation because,
• 18:35 he's not willing that any should perish.
• 18:38 But where like you said, we're living in a day and time which
• 18:41 certainly is equivalent to ancient Israel and their
• 18:44 immorality and idolatry, and of course the answer then is the
• 18:49 answer now, repent and believe the gospel.
• 18:52 And it sounds simple, but that's the true remedy.
• 18:55 Caleb: But why do people not want to repent?
• 18:57 I mean, just cutting it down to the basics, is it a pride issue,
• 19:01 is it fear, is it because they don't want to change?
• 19:04 Todd: I think it's all the above and then some.
• 19:06 I think people like being their own god, they like being their
• 19:09 own, you know, rulers and leaders in their lives.
• 19:13 They don't wanna take a subordinate position to another,
• 19:19 but then again, you know, God is perfect.
• 19:21 He knows what's perfectly good for us.
• 19:24 So, we're the creatures, he's the Creator, we need to follow
• 19:28 what the Creator prescribes for us to have a life that is filled
• 19:35 with a vibrant, giving relationship uh to the Lord, and
• 19:39 in return he gives us so much more than we could ever imagine,
• 19:44 eternal life with him, a destiny of priests and kings with him in
• 19:49 the future, and if people--no sane people would reject the
• 19:54 free gift of salvation.
• 19:56 But sin is a form of insanity, it warps the mind and it
• 20:01 prejudices the attitude, and until they're given a clear
• 20:05 presentation of the gospel and the Holy Spirit convicting them,
• 20:10 there's gonna continue to be this, unfortunately, increasing
• 20:14 apostasy in the church and in the nation at large, if that
• 20:17 makes sense.
• 20:18 Caleb: Yeah, apostasy is prevalent.
• 20:20 I believe Yeshua, when he spoke to John in Revelation 2 and 3,
• 20:24 that was a warning just as much for those churches back then as
• 20:27 for churches today.
• 20:29 You can see every single characteristic that Yeshua
• 20:31 rebuked in those churches, in our modern churches today, it's
• 20:35 alive and well and nothing has changed.
• 20:38 But that is that sign, as much as Yeshua said back then I'm
• 20:42 coming quickly, I believe he's coming quickly today and even
• 20:46 sooner than he was back then.
• 20:48 That we could be living in that last moment before his return.
• 20:51 Why not repent now?
• 20:53 Why not draw close to him now?
• 20:55 This could be your last chance.
• 20:57 Todd: Right, right, and fortunately, throughout the
• 21:01 church, the history of the church, it's similar to the days
• 21:04 of Elijah.
• 21:05 There is a redeemed remnant in the midst of this great mass of
• 21:10 apostasy, and we do know during the Tribulation period there
• 21:15 will be a global revival caused by the 144,000 Jewish
• 21:21 evangelists and the Tribulation saints, and there can be revival
• 21:25 now if we follow God's prescription given in the Word
• 21:29 for true revival, and it begins with--and I know it sound like
• 21:35 a broken record, it begins with repentance, acknowledging, God,
• 21:39 I've broken your law, I've violated it, I'm a guilty
• 21:42 sinner, forgive me, heal me, restore me.
• 21:48 And for the unbeliever it's the same, but with the addition of
• 21:53 save me.
• 21:55 And with the backslidden Christian, it would be restore
• 21:58 me, and repentance is not a one time thing, we should constantly
• 22:04 be living a life of repentance.
• 22:05 Because as James said in many things we offend all, and if
• 22:11 you're constantly aware of your shortcomings, not that you focus
• 22:17 on that and become introspective, it causes you to
• 22:20 focus on the cross even more, the place where forgiveness
• 22:24 and reconciliation and restoration is found.
• 22:29 David: The four of us around this table are parents, a couple
• 22:32 of us here at this table are even grandparents, and we are
• 22:36 trying, all of us, our best to be the best parents that we
• 22:39 can be.
• 22:40 That's what you've been teaching in this program about.
• 22:42 Caleb: It's hard for kids, I mean, you look at the times in
• 22:45 the past and they had to deal with famines and wars and plague
• 22:49 and bloodshed, all this stuff.
• 22:50 It was really hard to be a kid.
• 22:52 Kids were valuable assets to family.
• 22:55 They carried on the family name, they were workers, and so it was
• 22:59 really a fundamental concept that we needed kids.
• 23:02 Now today, people don't really want kids, they wanna focus
• 23:05 on self.
• 23:06 You know, Europe is struggling under population decline.
• 23:09 They're saying that they'll cease to be entire nations that
• 23:12 they don't start having, you know, more than one because of
• 23:15 population issues, and they're just not valued as they were
• 23:19 back then.
• 23:20 Joshua: What's interesting about that lack of value is that when
• 23:23 a parent focuses on themselves more than the child thinking
• 23:27 that the child's just gonna raise themselves, they're
• 23:28 actually not gonna raise themselves, it's gonna be the
• 23:30 environment around them that raises them.
• 23:32 And so, in times past you would think that it would be more
• 23:35 stressful for a kid back then because they're, you know,
• 23:37 plowing fields, and I mean, the fifth grade syllabus in the
• 23:40 1800's was insane.
• 23:41 It's like most seniors can't answer all the questions that
• 23:43 were on the list for that thing, but today with all of the
• 23:46 devices, you know, if I leave my kids to their own, they're gonna
• 23:49 be on the phones and the iPads and all these things
• 23:51 all day long.
• 23:53 They're not forced to learn who they are, to be cultivated,
• 23:57 to be raised, to be the and the adults that they're supposed to
• 24:00 be, that's our job to do that.
• 24:01 And so, we found in studies that Caleb was looking at that the
• 24:05 kids today are facing significantly more
• 24:07 stress emotionally.
• 24:09 Caleb: You have studies in medical journals saying that the
• 24:12 stress levels, the anxiety levels of kids today are at the
• 24:15 levels in the 1950's where kids were admitted into
• 24:19 insane asylums.
• 24:20 It's because they're inundated with such filth and perversion
• 24:23 and depravity and they are dealing with depression and
• 24:26 stress and all these things.
• 24:28 They're being inundated more because Satan's plan is to
• 24:31 destroy the family unit.
• 24:33 And for modern days, I look back at World War II, this was the
• 24:36 time that parents didn't come home from a war, a whole
• 24:40 generation of kids grew up without fathers.
• 24:42 The mothers started working during the war, they didn't come
• 24:44 back and raise the family unit afterward, and Satan took
• 24:47 advantage of that and the government stepped in and said
• 24:49 we'll raise your kids, Department of Education,
• 24:51 you know, we'll give you daycare, we'll raise them
• 24:53 in public schools.
• 24:54 And we had a whole generation of kids that were taught values
• 24:57 that are not biblical, that were secularized, and now we're
• 25:00 dealing with the repercussions of that in our society today.
• 25:03 Kirsten: But going back to Josiah, Josiah had to break some
• 25:06 stuff also.
• 25:08 I mean, you know, we've been paralleling kind of this time,
• 25:11 this day and age with Josiah's age, and he had bloodline issues
• 25:16 that he had a break.
• 25:18 We all do also, I don't know about you guys, but there's
• 25:22 stuff that we've broken from generations, but Josiah had to
• 25:25 break what was kind of put on him from some of his
• 25:28 genetic DNA.
• 25:30 Caleb: He had generational curses, I'm sure, through Amon,
• 25:32 who was a terrible father, you know.
• 25:35 He was taken out in two years time, but it's interesting, you
• 25:39 know, 2 Chronicles 34:3 talks about Josiah began to seek God
• 25:44 at the age of 16.
• 25:45 That word [speaking in Hebrew] he's actively pursuing with this
• 25:48 passion, he has to know who God is.
• 25:51 Wouldn't you want that for our kids today?
• 25:53 I mean, it's amazing.
• 25:55 Kirsten: For us, too, yeah, our generation, our age also.
• 25:58 David: Good news, we'll be right back.
• 26:02 David: Our resources this week, two books by Christian historian
• 26:06 David Barton.
• 26:07 First, "America's Godly Heritage."
• 26:09 This book details what the founding fathers intended for
• 26:12 America and what can be done to return to its original
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• 26:21 account of God's providence and protection of the young soldier
• 26:24 who later became our first president.
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