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Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “Beginnings of Reformation” (4/8)

• 00:00 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Caleb Colson: We're at the
• 00:43 Western Wall today. It's Bar Mitzvah day, the day that these young kiddos
• 00:45 become men.
• 00:46 It's Jewish tradition at the age of 13 boys become men in the
• 00:50 eyes of God, and typically at this time, you know, life
• 00:54 expectancy was short back then, Josh.
• 00:56 I mean, much shorter than it is today, especially if you were
• 00:58 lower class.
• 01:00 Joshua Colson: Really, brother?
• 01:01 Two minutes in and you're already mocking the
• 01:03 caste system.
• 01:04 Well, guess what?
• 01:06 It's 2024, baby, everybody in America is in the bottom,
• 01:08 thanks, inflation.
• 01:10 Caleb: And when these kids became men, they had to be
• 01:13 established in a trade.
• 01:15 They had to learn a craft.
• 01:16 Sometimes they even started before this age, so that then
• 01:19 when they were thoroughly capable of taking care of their
• 01:21 family, they would get married.
• 01:23 The girls would get married as soon as puberty and the boys
• 01:27 would be a few years older after that.
• 01:28 Joshua: And dating the age of Josiah and his children, we know
• 01:31 that Josiah was married around 12 or 13 and immediately started
• 01:34 having kiddos.
• 01:35 I always like to check back with Jewish historian Josephus,
• 01:39 because usually he's accurate 95% of the time, even though
• 01:41 sometimes the timing of a few events are off, but he had
• 01:44 access to historical documents that we don't have access
• 01:46 to today.
• 01:47 So, in checking out on Josiah, here's what he has to say.
• 01:50 Joshua: Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book X chapter 4, "And
• 01:54 when he, Josiah, was 12 years old, he gave demonstrations of
• 01:57 his religious and righteous behavior, for he brought the
• 01:59 people to a sober way of living, and exhorted them to leave off
• 02:03 the opinion that they had of their idols, because they were
• 02:06 not God's, but to worship their own God, and by reflecting on
• 02:09 the actions of his progenitors, he prudently corrected what they
• 02:11 did wrong, like a very elderly man, like one abundantly able to
• 02:15 understand what was fit to be done."
• 02:20 Caleb: You know, old man Josiah, I actually really like that.
• 02:23 God already bestowed great wisdom and knowledge on Josiah
• 02:26 at such a young age.
• 02:28 You know, he became king at the age of eight, but his hands were
• 02:31 tied to matters of the state.
• 02:33 Governor of--Hilkiah the high priest, and the elders
• 02:36 of the synod had to take care of those matters for him, but he
• 02:39 was trained up to learn how to rule by Achbor his attendant.
• 02:43 And Josephus says that, "And thus, he, Josiah, acted in
• 02:48 following the wisdom and sagacity of his own nature, and
• 02:51 in compliance with the advice and instruction of the elders."
• 02:55 Joshua: However, it wasn't until Josiah was 20 years old that he
• 02:58 was able to fully step into that mantle of ruling as king,
• 03:02 because this was the legal age that Moses had laid down in the
• 03:05 law of accountability that a man was ready to do that.
• 03:07 Caleb: That's right.
• 03:09 Joshua: Don't even get me started on the legal age of
• 03:10 manhood, 20 not even close enough.
• 03:13 Most of the people I know, 37, maybe 42.
• 03:17 They shouldn't be men.
• 03:18 The people I've seen in America, not men.
• 03:21 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:3, "In the eighth year of his
• 03:23 reign, while he, Josiah, was still young, he began to seek
• 03:27 the God of his father David.
• 03:28 In his twelfth year at age 20, he began to purge Judah and
• 03:31 Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles, and idols."
• 03:37 Caleb: Inspired by the words of Zephaniah and Habakkuk, Josiah
• 03:40 hits the ground running and begins reforming the country
• 03:44 within the scope of his knowledge.
• 03:45 Joshua: Remember, he doesn't have access to the books of the
• 03:47 law, he only has access to the previously-spoken prophecies of
• 03:51 the prophets, but he knows enough in his common sense to
• 03:54 know that there's only one true God.
• 03:56 These other people worshiping idols, those are not good.
• 03:58 Caleb: Now, to get a true sense of how Josiah reformed the land,
• 04:01 we decided to look everywhere in the country for evidence that he
• 04:04 didn't do what the Bible says he did.
• 04:07 So, we're gonna go next to an amazing location that's very
• 04:10 famous for idolatry in times past.
• 04:13 Joshua: What, we're going to that?
• 04:15 Caleb: Well, yeah.
• 04:16 Caleb: Yeah, that was me.
• 04:18 I was the guy who made the entire crew go to the worst,
• 04:21 most pagan high places on all the trip.
• 04:24 You know, maybe I wasn't the most popular guy, but I can't
• 04:27 wait to go idol smashing.
• 04:30 Joshua: Brother, put the sword down, we're indoors.
• 04:35 Joshua: The apostasy and idolatry of yesterday isn't that
• 04:38 much different from idolatry today, but Satan's good at
• 04:41 rebranding, confusing man who expects idol worship to be
• 04:45 a literal golden calf that someone bows to.
• 04:49 So, we decided to go on the nose to showcase the evidence of the
• 04:52 origins of idolatry for Judah and the Israelites by traveling
• 04:56 to the furthest northern reaches of the ten tribes territory at
• 05:00 the high place of Tel Dan.
• 05:05 Caleb: And it was here but the poo hit the fan.
• 05:08 Thanks very much, guys, Israelite sinning idolatry,
• 05:11 golden calf stuff.
• 05:14 ♪♪♪
• 05:18 Caleb: Apparently learned we have to hike to our location.
• 05:21 It's not straight off the parking lot.
• 05:24 We're Americans, we're not quite used to this.
• 05:26 Joshua: That's okay, it's only an hour and 45 minutes.
• 05:30 Caleb: We're taking the short path, the short cut, yeah.
• 05:35 ♪♪♪
• 05:43 Caleb: I didn't know we had to do so much walking on this
• 05:46 trip, Josh.
• 05:47 Joshua: I was told that they were going to cart us place to
• 05:50 place and we just had to talk about the Bible.
• 05:53 This cardio stuff was not a part of the plan.
• 05:55 Caleb: I did not prepare for this.
• 05:57 I thought we were above-the-line class, you know, talent,
• 06:01 we don't have to do all this work.
• 06:02 Joshua: Welcome to the line at Israel.
• 06:05 ♪♪♪
• 06:14 Caleb: Well, we finally made it to Tel Dan.
• 06:15 Look at these walls up here.
• 06:17 This was a protective layer for their fortress so that bad guys
• 06:20 couldn't come and invade.
• 06:21 As you can see, they're pretty big.
• 06:23 I don't think I can scale that wall, can you, Josh?
• 06:25 Joshua: It would take a minute for me to find my hops for that.
• 06:28 Probably not gonna happen.
• 06:29 Caleb: Very cool.
• 06:31 ♪♪♪
• 06:40 Joshua: We have finally arrived at the most northern reaches of
• 06:43 Israel bordering Lebanon, and this territory was given to the
• 06:46 tribe of Dan.
• 06:47 They had wonderful water that flowed down from Mount Hermon.
• 06:50 They were situated along major highways so they had trade
• 06:53 routes come by.
• 06:54 The archaeologists, they found something special here, a high
• 06:56 place, a place of worship that proved the intricate stories of
• 07:00 the Bible.
• 07:02 Caleb: That's right, because of King Solomon's despicable sin of
• 07:04 idolatry and refusal to clean house, God stripped the kingdom
• 07:08 from his son, Rehoboam.
• 07:09 He was only allotted two tribes to the south.
• 07:12 To the north was ten tribes of Israel which were given to
• 07:15 Jeroboam ben Nebat.
• 07:17 Now, soon he screwed up because he figured out the only house of
• 07:21 worship, the only temple, was in the territory of Judah, so what
• 07:25 would he do?
• 07:27 Joshua: First Kings 12:26-30, "Jeroboam thought to himself,
• 07:32 'The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
• 07:35 If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the
• 07:38 Lord in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to
• 07:41 their lord, Rehoboam, king of Judah.
• 07:44 They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.'
• 07:46 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves.
• 07:51 He said to the people, 'It is too much for you to go
• 07:54 to Jerusalem.
• 07:55 Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'
• 07:59 One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
• 08:02 And this thing became a sin, the people came to worship the one
• 08:06 at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other."
• 08:11 Joshua: So, this is where it all went down, a former high place
• 08:14 for the Canaanites.
• 08:16 Jeroboam decides that he's gonna build a great place of
• 08:18 worship atop those ruins dedicated to the golden calf
• 08:22 goddess of the Egyptians, Hathor.
• 08:26 Caleb: I admit, I was a bit disappointed to find no altar or
• 08:31 golden calf at Tel Dan.
• 08:34 Now we can't go idol smashing.
• 08:38 Joshua: I don't know, Brother, I'm no genius, I thought maybe
• 08:41 we'd learned our lesson from Mount Sinai with the golden
• 08:43 calf, but not.
• 08:45 Caleb: A lot of death and destruction happened because of
• 08:47 that event.
• 08:48 Now, here, as you can see this mock replica of the altars where
• 08:51 they found that Jeroboam built that brazen altar, and upon that
• 08:55 platform where the golden calf was situated.
• 08:58 Now, many archaeologists consider and believe that it's
• 09:01 possible that King Josiah came here when he was cleansing
• 09:05 the land.
• 09:07 ♪♪♪
• 09:14 Caleb: Second Kings 23:19, "Josiah also removed all the
• 09:18 houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria
• 09:22 which the kings of Israel had made provoking the Lord."
• 09:27 ♪♪♪
• 09:38 Joshua: Now, there has been some debate amongst scholars as
• 09:40 to whether or not Josiah made it here because of the discovery of
• 09:43 standing stones at the gates.
• 09:45 Now, 2 Kings 23:8 says that Josiah tore down the standing
• 09:49 stones at the high places.
• 09:50 Now, the Assyrians had destroyed the place and it was covered in
• 09:54 ash, so they think maybe he missed Tel Dan because of that.
• 09:58 Caleb: But the destructive evidence of this site is in
• 10:01 compliance with how King Josiah desecrated the high places.
• 10:05 Just west of here is the Naphtali Ridge that acted as the
• 10:08 border to the territory of Dan, and thus when we read in 2
• 10:12 Chronicles about Josiah going as far as Naphtali into the ruins,
• 10:16 he most probably did come here.
• 10:18 Joshua: That makes sense.
• 10:21 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:6-7, "In the town of
• 10:26 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali , and in the
• 10:30 ruins around them, he, Josiah, tore down the altars and the
• 10:34 Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to
• 10:38 pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel.
• 10:40 Then he went back to Jerusalem."
• 10:44 ♪♪♪
• 10:48 Caleb: Now, this is the part of the story that I personally
• 10:51 find amazing.
• 10:52 King Josiah wasn't just atoning for the sins of the Kingdom of
• 10:55 Judah, but for his brothers to the north.
• 10:58 Even though most of the Israelites were long gone and
• 11:00 held captive in Assyria, he made it his mission to go in and
• 11:04 atone for their sins and remove that curse that was placed on
• 11:09 that territory because of the idolatry, because of the
• 11:12 defilement, because of the perversion that they acted in
• 11:16 in worshiping demons.
• 11:19 Caleb: Second chronicles 34:4-5, "Under his, Josiah's, direction
• 11:25 the altars of the Baals were torn down.
• 11:27 He cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them and
• 11:31 smashed the Asherah poles and the idols.
• 11:34 These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of
• 11:38 those who had sacrificed to them.
• 11:40 He burned the bones of a priest on their altars, and so he
• 11:44 purged Judah and Jerusalem."
• 11:48 Joshua: And Josiah was literally 20 years old, and the maturity
• 11:52 level spiritually of this 20 year old was far beyond most
• 11:55 20 year olds today.
• 11:56 No offense, guys.
• 11:58 Joshua: You know what?
• 11:59 I take it back.
• 12:00 Okay, 20 year olds, welcome to manhood.
• 12:02 Definitely looks like it with your super thin mustaches.
• 12:03 Nobody's ever done that before.
• 12:04 Oh, wait, you're not allowed in school zones,
• 12:06 especially in panel vans.
• 12:07 I wouldn't go ahead and choose--
• 12:09 Caleb: Josh, that's our target demographic.
• 12:11 You can't make fun of it.
• 12:13 Joshua: God has chosen you for such a time as this at the exact
• 12:16 age of 20, congratulations.
• 12:18 Welcome to manhood.
• 12:21 Joshua: But I always thought that the timing was a little
• 12:22 interesting at these reforms, because God brings another young
• 12:26 man to his life, probably only 13 years old, to be a prophet
• 12:30 to Josiah.
• 12:31 Jeremiah 1:1-2 says, "The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
• 12:37 of the priests who were of Anathoth in the land of
• 12:39 Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of
• 12:42 Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
• 12:46 of his reign."
• 12:48 Caleb: Now, Jeremiah the famous prophet was commissioned by God
• 12:51 one year into Josiah's first reformation, and Josiah did all
• 12:55 this work cleansing the land, and here's what God said to
• 12:58 approve of his work.
• 13:00 Joshua: Jeremiah 1:14-16 says, "Then the Lord said to me, 'Out
• 13:04 of the north calamity shall break forth on all the
• 13:07 inhabitants of the land.
• 13:09 For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the
• 13:11 north,' says the Lord.
• 13:13 'They shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance
• 13:16 of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all
• 13:20 around, and against all the cities of Judah.
• 13:22 I will utter My judgments against them concerning all
• 13:25 their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense
• 13:29 to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'"
• 13:33 Caleb: What a devastating message.
• 13:35 Not you did a good job, but judgment is coming.
• 13:39 And here we get a sense of why God chose Jeremiah to be
• 13:43 so young.
• 13:44 I mean, here Josiah was 21 years old and he probably remembered
• 13:47 when he was just a boy and his hands were tied and he wasn't
• 13:50 allowed to do everything that God had placed in his heart, but
• 13:54 that was intentional by God.
• 13:55 And most rabbis believe that Josiah authenticated Jeremiah as
• 14:00 a true prophet.
• 14:02 That he paid them the wages of the prophet.
• 14:04 That he gave him a residence in Jerusalem, because as soon as
• 14:07 Jeremiah started to prophesy, his own family disowned him.
• 14:10 Joshua: I love Josiah's heart towards Jeremiah, because he
• 14:13 never silences him, he doesn't chastise him, he doesn't say
• 14:16 stop, you're young, you don't know what you're doing, he lets
• 14:18 him speak the word and he welcomed from God in his limited
• 14:22 knowledge of the law when he was wrong, he welcomed
• 14:24 God's reproof.
• 14:26 He was always ready to do the right thing.
• 14:27 Caleb: Guys, some people say we need a revival.
• 14:30 I don't think a revival is enough.
• 14:31 Some people say we need a great awakening like times past, but
• 14:35 first we need to be awakened to the concept of sin.
• 14:38 But truly, like Josiah, we need a great reformation, changing
• 14:44 from this point on, turning our backs on everything and
• 14:47 continuing on the path to righteousness.
• 14:51 ♪♪♪
• 14:57 Caleb: Here we are today in modern Israel.
• 14:58 Behind me is the second largest mosque in all of the country.
• 15:03 The first is Al-Aqsa mosque, and though it's peaceful right now,
• 15:07 Josh, you hear the birds chirping, it's shabbat,
• 15:10 elsewhere in Israel around the Gaza Strip, hundreds of rockets
• 15:13 are being fired off into peaceful Israeli villages and
• 15:17 they are going into bomb shelters.
• 15:18 I find it heartbreaking the thing that people do in the name
• 15:22 of these false pagan gods, which is why we're supposed to serve
• 15:25 the one true God.
• 15:26 Joshua: The world today is in just about as a place as it was
• 15:30 back then.
• 15:31 Back then, the streets were adorned with idols, they were
• 15:34 adorned with pagan symbols, and at least back then when they saw
• 15:39 it, they noticed that and they cringed.
• 15:41 But how many times have you walked past or driven past
• 15:44 a mosque in your town or a Buddhist temple or a Masonic
• 15:48 lodge or any of these other shrines to other gods and
• 15:51 thought nothing of it?
• 15:52 You simply drove by.
• 15:54 Or maybe you thought because you go to a synagogue or you go to
• 15:57 a Christian church, your church is perfect and there's nothing
• 16:00 at all that could be going wrong inside of it.
• 16:02 You become complacent, and because of that, the church,
• 16:07 the body of Christ, Christianity, is no longer the
• 16:11 leading religion in the world.
• 16:12 In fact, the leading growing religion in the world is
• 16:15 Islam, why?
• 16:16 Because their people are so dedicated to the worship and the
• 16:20 faith of a false demon god, Allah.
• 16:24 So, what are we supposed to do, you say?
• 16:26 I can't stand up and say anything against it.
• 16:29 What if I get retaliated against?
• 16:31 What if they shut down my Instagram for speaking the truth
• 16:33 and I can't tweet anymore?
• 16:35 If it's even called that.
• 16:36 I'm glad you asked.
• 16:37 First Peter 3:14 says, "But even if I should suffer for
• 16:41 righteousness' sake, you are blessed.
• 16:44 'And do not be afraid of their threats nor be troubled,' but
• 16:47 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts."
• 16:50 Trust me, I get that it can be scary.
• 16:53 I remember as a kid never ever wanting to be a prophet or have
• 16:55 the gift of a prophet.
• 16:57 I remember reading all the stories about their job.
• 16:59 Their job was to go tell everybody you're doing this
• 17:01 wrong and you need to repent, and if you don't repent this is
• 17:04 what's gonna happen.
• 17:05 Nobody wants to be that guy because nobody wants to be
• 17:08 ostracized or hated for those things that they have to say,
• 17:11 it's true.
• 17:13 But no matter how bad you think the outcome in this life is for
• 17:16 standing up for the truth, the outcome in the life to come for
• 17:19 doing nothing is far worse than anything anybody could do.
• 17:24 In this life there's literally nothing that they can do to you.
• 17:28 Yes, they can hurt your physical body, but you're not a physical
• 17:31 body, you are an eternal spirit being.
• 17:34 You will live eternally with the Father, and no matter what they
• 17:38 try to bring against you in this life, he stands for you and he
• 17:42 defends you.
• 17:43 When I look at the life of Josiah, do you know what the
• 17:45 most sobering thing is to me?
• 17:47 This man who started his kingship at age eight, who then
• 17:50 went for 31 more years reforming the land to the degree that we
• 17:55 have not seen anybody else do, is that he dedicated his life to
• 17:58 reforming the church, not the lost.
• 18:02 Let that sink in while 12 mind-blown emojis pop up on your
• 18:05 social media.
• 18:06 His life was dedicated to reforming the body of Christ
• 18:11 in essence.
• 18:12 The bombs are going off behind me right now, you can hear it.
• 18:15 We're living in the last time, in the last age.
• 18:18 You don't have time anymore to say it's not my job.
• 18:22 We don't have time to live in complacency and say we love
• 18:25 Yeshua on a Sunday or on a Wednesday, but then go live like
• 18:29 the world and hide in complacency every time you've
• 18:32 been called to speak the truth in love.
• 18:34 And those who don't know, those who are sitting there when these
• 18:38 sirens go off and may lose their life today, will spend an
• 18:41 eternity separated from the Father.
• 18:44 Reform begins today, and it begins with you, and all he's
• 18:48 asked you to do is stand for him, stand for him the way he
• 18:52 died for you with his head held high saying, "That is my Son,"
• 18:59 just as we're called to say he is my Father.
• 19:04 Mark 8:36 says, "For what shall it profit a man to gain the
• 19:07 whole world and forfeit his soul?"
• 19:10 Today is your day.
• 19:12 Today is your day to choose.
• 19:15 [siren blaring]
• 19:21 ♪♪♪
• 19:31 ♪♪♪
• 19:41 ♪♪♪
• 19:51 ♪♪♪
• 20:01 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:06 ♪♪♪
• 20:16 ♪♪♪
• 20:26 ♪♪♪
• 20:38 [shouting]
• 20:44 [explosions]
• 20:47 ♪♪♪
• 20:57 ♪♪♪
• 20:59 [Caleb singing in Hebrew]
• 21:11 Joshua: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 21:15 You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all
• 21:19 of your soul, with all of your strength.
• 21:24 ♪♪♪
• 21:31 Oliver Melnick: You know, Jewish people speak of October 7th like
• 21:34 holocaust 2.0 or second holocaust.
• 21:37 Unfortunately, I mean, I understand the gravity of it now
• 21:40 from a theological perspective.
• 21:42 We know that during the tribulation, two-thirds of the
• 21:45 Jewish people, Zachariah 13:8-9, are going to perish.
• 21:49 We know that, so that's gonna be worse than the first holocaust,
• 21:52 but this, what happened in Israel on October 7th, we know
• 21:56 now was the largest, the heaviest death toll of Jewish
• 22:02 people in one day since the holocaust.
• 22:05 And what it has done, it's kind of scary even every time I see
• 22:09 it, but even beyond the normalization of anti-Semitism,
• 22:11 it is almost like anti-Semitism is becoming ready for that word,
• 22:15 because I don't even like using it, trendy.
• 22:19 Caleb: It's cool to hate Jews now.
• 22:21 Oliver: It's becoming cool to hate Jews.
• 22:22 It's trendy, and I never thought that we would get there before
• 22:27 the Rapture.
• 22:28 You know, like, you know, I expected those things to happen
• 22:31 during the Tribulation, and especially the second half of
• 22:33 the Tribulation, and we know from the Bible also specifically
• 22:37 that the whole world is gonna go against Israel.
• 22:41 If what's important to people is how many followers they have
• 22:43 because it makes you feel important, then you wanna be
• 22:47 controversial saying something about Israel or the Jews,
• 22:50 because biblical truth does not get you a lot of followers,
• 22:52 unfortunately, it never will.
• 22:54 It's lonely at the top, you know, with, you know.
• 22:57 So, yeah, people, but you know, I look at the youth and the way
• 23:00 they've been walking on campuses and streets and they keep
• 23:03 screaming, you know, "From the river to the sea, Palestine
• 23:05 shall be free."
• 23:07 There was a guy who actually did some interviewing, I don't know
• 23:09 if you saw the video, he did some interviewing on the streets
• 23:11 and on campuses, and he asked the people what river and
• 23:16 what sea?
• 23:18 They didn't know what river, they didn't know what sea.
• 23:20 Well, the river in Gaza.
• 23:23 It was embarrassing, and these young people are screaming that
• 23:28 slogan because they think it's the expression of social
• 23:32 justice, but really from the River Jordan to the sea, the
• 23:35 Mediterranean, means from, you know, from east to west, west to
• 23:40 east, north, south, wipe all the Jews off the map of Israel.
• 23:44 And you know, no Jews allowed, kill them all.
• 23:50 Kirsten Hart: In your teaching today, you were speaking about
• 23:52 Josiah's reforms, but what was he reforming to?
• 23:56 Is kind of crazy because he didn't even have a copy of the
• 23:59 scriptures, that wasn't there, it wasn't in his hands.
• 24:03 Caleb: That's true, but God still sent his prophets.
• 24:05 Zephaniah was around at this time, he was forewarning of
• 24:08 destruction coming from the north, of the
• 24:11 Babylonians coming.
• 24:13 People had an idea, I mean, they were the people of the book,
• 24:16 they knew what that book originally stood for even though
• 24:19 they did not have it.
• 24:20 They knew what the Temple Mount was there to do, to worship
• 24:23 Yahweh and not to worship these other gods, but they were still
• 24:26 steeped in that ideology and it's so sobering, because as you
• 24:33 saw in that last segment, Josh was in front of that mosque in
• 24:35 Abu Ghosh, and as he's teaching about this moment in time where
• 24:40 they followed after idolatry, here is a pagan shrine to Allah,
• 24:44 this pagan god.
• 24:46 Avodah Zarah is this act in Hebrew of idolatry following
• 24:51 after these other gods, and we were living it out and seeing
• 24:54 that cycle of sin and and judgment and these four nations
• 24:58 invading as we were right there.
• 25:00 Kirsten: Once again, paralleling that time with modern times,
• 25:04 it's not that different, is it?
• 25:06 Joshua: It isn't that different, and we like to pretend that it's
• 25:09 different because it was so long ago, but mankind is the same
• 25:13 person yesterday as it is today.
• 25:15 We deal with the same problems, we have the same enemy, but we
• 25:18 have the same God.
• 25:19 And if you look today at what's going on and you don't think
• 25:22 that we're facing the same types of issues, morality is at the
• 25:25 center of everything right now.
• 25:27 It's 2024, we're about to have an election happen that we are
• 25:30 having to decide who is going to run this country, and the issues
• 25:33 that are at stake have escalated even farther than when I
• 25:37 started voting.
• 25:38 I remember my first vote at 18, you know, the things in the
• 25:41 docket now are so far worse.
• 25:43 This is a time period now where somebody needs to stand up and
• 25:47 call for reform.
• 25:48 We don't have a monarchy, right?
• 25:50 So, we don't have that ability to do that, but we each have the
• 25:53 ability as individuals to stand for the truth and say we're not
• 25:56 gonna give in to what we're being told and continue in this
• 25:58 sin, and I believe conviction is something, you know, that what's
• 26:02 happening isn't right, even if you seared your conscience to
• 26:05 that and seared the Holy Spirit.
• 26:06 So, how do you change?
• 26:08 The first thing is turning around and doing the opposite of
• 26:10 what you're doing now.
• 26:11 Once they did that, then they got the scripture, then they had
• 26:14 the detail, and then he doubled down even more on making it
• 26:18 right as opposed to going, oh, I don't know, that might be too
• 26:20 hard for us.
• 26:22 I don't wanna start that diet today, it's a little restrictive
• 26:23 and I've got pizza night on Thursday, or I don't wanna start
• 26:26 doing what's right because my favorite show is in mid-season
• 26:29 and I can't stop watching those episodes, I'll just turn it off
• 26:31 on the bad stuff.
• 26:32 We hold on to it and we don't make that change because we
• 26:35 like sin.
• 26:37 Kirsten: I don't like sin.
• 26:39 No, I mean, but you're right, you're right.
• 26:43 And I know you speak about America.
• 26:45 Our program goes across the world.
• 26:47 You might be in a completely different country.
• 26:49 The same message though to every country on the planet is that
• 26:53 the Word of God wants to refine us and clean us out.
• 26:57 Caleb: It's a worldwide message because we're facing
• 26:59 worldwide judgment.
• 27:00 We are in the last days now and I believe Babylon the Great is
• 27:03 coming, that final government of the beast, and just like Josiah
• 27:07 did, I believe there's a way to push back on that coming
• 27:10 of Babylon.
• 27:12 It all starts with repentance.
• 27:13 David Hart: Repentance, that's good.
• 27:15 We'll be right back.
• 27:17 Caleb: Josh, come on, it's just a college campus, what are you
• 27:21 afraid of?
• 27:22 Joshua: It's not just a college campus.
• 27:23 If you watch the news, do you see what they're doing
• 27:25 to Jewish people on college campuses?
• 27:26 It's not a safe place.
• 27:27 Caleb: That's true, but let's remedy that.
• 27:29 Our beloved viewers, we ask that you continue to give to this
• 27:31 ministry that has been preaching the gospel of Yeshua for
• 27:34 45-plus years.
• 27:35 Although Satan may move on the hearts of the world to hate the
• 27:37 Jewish people, we will continue to teach about God's
• 27:40 unconditional love toward the Jews and his eternal covenants
• 27:43 with Israel.
• 27:44 Joshua: If you donate to this ministry, you're gonna receive
• 27:45 two tracks, one for you and one for a friend.
• 27:47 It teaches about the unholy, unnatural origins of
• 27:50 anti-Semitism and it cancels the disinformation that's happening
• 27:53 today on college campuses like this.
• 27:56 Caleb: I see what you did there, pretty smart, pretty hip.
• 28:00 David: Many places that you see the guys teaching, we couldn't
• 28:03 do that without your help and we just wanna say thank you
• 28:05 so much.
• 28:07 Joshua: As we leave you now, sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 28:09 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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