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Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “Cleansing the Land” (6/8)

• 00:06 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today for our
• 00:08 series, "Josiah and the Last Reformation."
• 00:11 Kristen Hart: On today's program, you'll see that King
• 00:13 Josiah has a newfound love for the law, and he is ready to
• 00:19 clean out the land of all idols.
• 00:22 David: Joshua and Caleb are on location in Israel.
• 00:25 Let's go there now.
• 00:27 ♪♪♪
• 00:37 ♪♪♪
• 00:47 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 ♪♪♪
• 01:01 Caleb Colson: Guys, it's idol smashing time.
• 01:04 I've been waiting so long for this episode!
• 01:06 Joshua Colson: Spoiler alert: Caleb has been waiting a long
• 01:09 time for all the episodes.
• 01:11 Literally just saw him polishing his idol smashing sword in
• 01:15 the back.
• 01:16 Caleb: Idol smashing time!
• 01:20 Caleb: Because it's the episode where Satan runs with his tail
• 01:24 between his legs because of the single man, Josiah, decided to
• 01:27 submit himself unto God and the devil fleed from him.
• 01:31 You know, don't tell me there wasn't powerful spiritual,
• 01:33 political, and physical opposition to Josiah's reforms.
• 01:36 People had done one thing one way, and they weren't about
• 01:39 to change.
• 01:40 But, you know, whenever man decides to submit himself unto
• 01:43 God and walk righteously before him, the devil will try to lay a
• 01:46 snare for you.
• 01:47 Joshua: But when Josiah read the words of the law, he immediately
• 01:51 reestablished the covenant with God and began to follow the
• 01:55 Torah exactly as it was written 'cause God said to do it.
• 02:02 Joshua: Deuteronomy 12:1-4: "These are the statutes and
• 02:05 judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land
• 02:09 which the Lord God of your fathers has given you to
• 02:11 possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
• 02:15 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations
• 02:19 which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high
• 02:23 mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
• 02:26 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred
• 02:29 pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire: you shall cut
• 02:32 down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names
• 02:35 from that place.
• 02:36 You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things."
• 02:40 Caleb: So, step one, with Josiah's newfound Torah
• 02:43 knowledge, he realized that the priests in the temple were using
• 02:46 the cursed articles, saucers, incense holders.
• 02:49 All these things were--were ordained to other gods.
• 02:52 He had to get rid of them all.
• 02:54 Joshua: Step two: never use cursed articles.
• 02:58 I mean, what?
• 02:59 Isn't that a given?
• 03:00 Caleb: 2 Kings 23:4 says, "The king ordered Hilkiah the high
• 03:04 priest, the priest next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove
• 03:07 from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and
• 03:11 Asherah and all the starry hosts.
• 03:12 He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron
• 03:15 Valley and took the ashes to Bethel."
• 03:19 Joshua: Next step, remove all the priests that were appointed
• 03:22 by evil kings.
• 03:23 It was unlawful for anyone that was not a Cohanim to be
• 03:26 a priest.
• 03:27 He had to be from the lineage of Aaron.
• 03:29 The penalty was death.
• 03:33 Joshua: Now, 2 Kings 23:5 says, "He did away with the idolatrous
• 03:38 priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the
• 03:41 high places of the towns of Judah and on those around
• 03:44 Jerusalem those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and
• 03:47 the moon, and the constellations and to all the starry hosts."
• 03:52 Caleb: And it wasn't just killing these priests that were
• 03:56 idolatrous in the temple of the Lord.
• 03:58 It is all the evil priests that stood upon the high places and
• 04:01 worshiped these demon gods, and that's when he came here, the
• 04:05 Valley of Hinnom.
• 04:06 He had to do away with that Molek idol with all the--he had
• 04:10 to--he had to desecrate it to make sure that--that abortion,
• 04:14 that child sacrifice would never be committed in this
• 04:17 valley again.
• 04:18 It says in 2 Kings 23:10, "He, Josiah, desecrated Topheth,
• 04:24 which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so no one could use it to
• 04:27 sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek."
• 04:32 Joshua: Ha!
• 04:33 Take that, Molek.
• 04:35 Caleb: Guys, Josiah's next acts of cleansing is verified by an
• 04:37 archaeological discovery in the city of David, a bulla, a clay
• 04:41 seal, that was made with the impression of a signet ring, and
• 04:45 on that bulla read the name Nathan Melek, a servant of
• 04:49 the king.
• 04:51 Caleb: There you go, buddy, you did it!
• 04:52 We knew your time would come!
• 04:54 Now, Nathan gets to sit in the front seat 'cause he's a good
• 04:57 guy at proving the Bible's accuracy.
• 05:01 Joshua: 2 Kings 23:11: "He, Josiah, removed the entrance to
• 05:05 the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah
• 05:08 had dedicated to the sun.
• 05:09 They were in the court near the room of an official
• 05:11 named Nathan-Melek.
• 05:13 Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun."
• 05:18 Joshua: Here, the Kidron Valley became the dumping ground for
• 05:21 all of the refuse of the idol smashing, tearing, and burning
• 05:24 that Josiah did.
• 05:26 It was a sign to everyone in Jerusalem, anyone that passed
• 05:28 by, this is what happens to idols here.
• 05:31 Caleb: Well, well, well, looks like it's time to fill up that
• 05:34 valley again.
• 05:35 Everybody bring me your Taylor Swift albums.
• 05:38 Joshua: 2 Kings 23:6 says, "Josiah took the Asherah pole
• 05:42 from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside
• 05:45 Jerusalem and burned it there.
• 05:46 He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the
• 05:49 graves of the common people.
• 05:51 And he break down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the
• 05:54 house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for
• 05:57 the Asherah."
• 05:59 Caleb: This is a part of a story that I find interesting, guys.
• 06:02 This perversion of sexuality was linked with the Asherah, this
• 06:05 goddess worship.
• 06:07 Now, they had this symbol of sexuality, the Asherah pole.
• 06:11 It literally represented a phallus, same thing with the
• 06:14 Egyptians and the obelisk, namely represent
• 06:17 Nimrod’s phallus.
• 06:18 But this--this perversion with the--the sodomites and all that,
• 06:22 these people didn't know right from wrong.
• 06:25 And so, though Josiah went and he destroyed all these idols, he
• 06:29 offered grace to the Sodomites.
• 06:31 He didn't murder them.
• 06:33 He didn't kill them.
• 06:34 They didn't know right for wrong, so he gave them the grace
• 06:36 of the Lord, and I promise you, they knew the truth from that
• 06:38 point on.
• 06:41 Joshua: Yeah, they did.
• 06:46 Caleb: 2 Kings 23:8 and verse 12, "Josiah brought all the
• 06:50 priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places,
• 06:54 from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense."
• 06:57 Verse 12: "He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had
• 07:01 erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the
• 07:04 altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of
• 07:07 the Lord.
• 07:08 He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw
• 07:11 the rubble into the Kidron Valley."
• 07:15 Joshua: Josiah is leaving no stone unturned.
• 07:17 He's fighting every idol,
• 07:19 every consecrated image, anything used
• 07:21 to worship another god, and he's getting rid of it.
• 07:23 Let me ask you this question: How many of you would be willing
• 07:26 to do that in your own lives?
• 07:27 Go into your home and look at TV, or movies, or things that
• 07:30 didn't honor God, throw it away.
• 07:32 You've got food, junk food, thing that you're--you're
• 07:34 serving, that you're consuming, destroying your body.
• 07:36 Get it out of your life.
• 07:39 Joshua: Brother, don't make me call Josiah!
• 07:45 Joshua: If you struggle with lust, ask for deliverance and
• 07:48 give your heart to God in that manner.
• 07:50 How many of you will put the Father first?
• 07:53 An idol is only anything that's taking over position in your
• 07:55 life over the Father.
• 07:56 It's time that we smash it and get it out of our lives.
• 07:59 2 Kings 23:13 and 14: "The king also desecrated the high places
• 08:05 that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of
• 08:08 Corruption--the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for
• 08:11 Ashteroth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the
• 08:15 vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people
• 08:19 of Amman.
• 08:20 Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles
• 08:23 and covered the sites with human bones."
• 08:27 Caleb: This is very telling, guys.
• 08:29 Josiah had to finish it where it all began, where King Solomon
• 08:33 had placed those idols on that Hill of Corruption.
• 08:37 But Josephus, the Jewish historian, adds one little extra
• 08:40 tidbit to the story that I want to read to you.
• 08:42 He says, "[Josiah] also searched the houses,
• 08:45 and the villages, and the cities out of the suspicion
• 08:49 that somebody might have one idol or another in private."
• 08:54 ♪ Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? ♪
• 08:57 ♪ What you gonna do when Josiah comes for you? ♪
• 08:59 [speaking gibberish]
• 09:01 Joshua: I don't remember the rest of the words.
• 09:02 You know what I'm talking about, old guys.
• 09:05 Caleb: This was how zealous Josiah was for the Lord.
• 09:08 He searched every home, every house in every city.
• 09:12 He took the idols, brought 'em down here to the Kidron Valley,
• 09:15 and smashed 'em like this rubble you see before me.
• 09:18 And then after that, Josiah brought the people together in
• 09:22 one voice and one accord to celebrate Pesach, Passover.
• 09:26 And it says in 2 Chronicles 35:7 that "Josiah provided for all
• 09:30 the lay people who are there a total of thirty thousand lambs
• 09:34 and goats for the Passover offering, and also three
• 09:37 thousand cattle of the king's own possessions."
• 09:41 You see, Passover hadn't been celebrated since the time of
• 09:44 King Hezekiah, and he wanted to make sure that everyone from the
• 09:47 least to the greatest could feast with the Lord.
• 09:50 Joshua: Everyone could celebrate.
• 09:51 Everyone had enough.
• 09:53 They were able to celebrate the Lord's moadim.
• 09:54 It was said of Josiah’s Pesach, 2 Chronicles 35:18, "The
• 09:58 Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the
• 10:01 days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had
• 10:05 ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests,
• 10:08 the Levites and Judah and Israel who were there with the people
• 10:11 of Jerusalem."
• 10:15 Joshua: Next week, we'll discuss a very important event that
• 10:17 happened before this Passover celebration, but I want you to
• 10:20 stop and think like Josiah for a minute.
• 10:23 He could not force them under rod and iron to celebrate and to
• 10:27 worship Elohim.
• 10:29 If he did so, their hearts wouldn't be in it.
• 10:31 He first had to lead by example.
• 10:37 Caleb: Oh yeah, there we go.
• 10:40 Bye, Taylor.
• 10:45 Joshua: Brother, she's burning up like Beelzebub, you
• 10:48 were right!
• 10:50 Joshua: Isn't that how all good leaders do?
• 10:52 They lead by example first, and from that example he led, the
• 10:55 people actually had the opportunity to make the choice,
• 10:58 and the choice was what mattered most.
• 11:01 Caleb: Now, the part about the feast, the Passover, I find it
• 11:04 interesting that Satan not only tried to stop the worship of god
• 11:08 of Elohim, but he was so threatened by them celebrating
• 11:11 the Moadim, the seven feasts, the appointed times, because he
• 11:14 knew that one day, they would point them to Yeshua Messiah,
• 11:18 who would fulfill those Moadim in person.
• 11:21 We see in the future, the Antichrist, the beast, does the
• 11:24 same thing.
• 11:26 Let's read about that in Daniel 7:25: "He [the Beast]
• 11:29 will speak against the Most High God, oppress the holy people of
• 11:33 the Most High and plan to change the appointed times [the Moadim]
• 11:38 and laws."
• 11:41 Caleb: Satan knows what these final feasts mean for him.
• 11:45 He knows they prophetically spell his doom that on Yom
• 11:48 Kippur, he's gonna be taken up and he's gonna be judged, so he
• 11:51 thinks somehow he's gonna change these feasts.
• 11:54 He's gonna change the timing and make it go away.
• 11:57 He cannot change prophecy.
• 12:00 But you look at Josiah.
• 12:01 He humbled his heart before the Lord.
• 12:04 He entreated before God and asked for forgiveness before the
• 12:07 Lord, and God pushed back the timetable because of
• 12:11 his humility.
• 12:12 He pushed back the coming of the Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar.
• 12:16 Joshua: Throughout Israel and Judah's turbulent history, they
• 12:20 would go from a position of serving the Lord to slowly
• 12:23 slipping into sin and then literally into a physical
• 12:26 bondage, where they were enslaved by another foreign
• 12:29 nation, and they would cry out to Adonai again to be saved, and
• 12:33 he would rescue them and save them out, and they would serve
• 12:36 him again for a little time.
• 12:38 I don't know where we're at as a nation in this vicious cycle,
• 12:41 where we go from living in wicked sin to repenting, but I
• 12:45 would really, really like to skip the whole "live in bondage"
• 12:48 portion of that as a nation, both America and Israel.
• 12:52 And immediately, right now, repent and cry out to the Father
• 12:56 so that we could skip straight to that--that manifestation of
• 13:00 his presence and that great awakening that just shakes the
• 13:03 world for him.
• 13:07 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, who are called by my
• 13:12 name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn
• 13:17 from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and
• 13:21 will forgive their sin and heal their land."
• 13:26 Caleb: I'm not gonna lie, guys, we were so close at the
• 13:28 beginning of the COVID shutdowns.
• 13:30 For the first time in many Americans’s lives, we were
• 13:32 desperate and ready to depend on God for help, and many turned
• 13:36 their hearts and repentance toward God.
• 13:37 But then, government stepped in to offer their solution.
• 13:44 Caleb: And what was government's solution to the problem?
• 13:47 They threw money at it.
• 13:48 They said, "You have money.
• 13:50 We'll take care of the problem."
• 13:51 They said, "We will create a vaccine to solve all
• 13:54 your problems.
• 13:56 It will eradicate the virus."
• 13:57 Then they said, "Oh wait, we'll create mandates.
• 14:00 You can't gather together and pray together as one believers."
• 14:04 You see these believers behind me?
• 14:06 They're worshiping together.
• 14:07 They're confessing together.
• 14:09 Bombs are raining down outside from the Gaza Strip.
• 14:13 [sirens wailing]
• 14:15 [explosions]
• 14:22 We’re in the midst of turmoil and strife, yet they're
• 14:24 not afraid.
• 14:26 They're worshiping God.
• 14:27 Yet we, during this time of the COVID lockdowns, we were
• 14:29 so afraid.
• 14:31 We were so fearful.
• 14:32 We were willing to surrender every liberty in order for
• 14:34 government to keep us safe instead of trusting in the God
• 14:37 of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who could keep us safe.
• 14:41 Joshua: Guys, we, as the church, have been sleep for too long.
• 14:44 Doom is coming.
• 14:45 Babylon is coming, not straight from Baghdad, but spiritual
• 14:48 Babylon, one that is going to manifest itself in this
• 14:51 wicked Antichrist.
• 14:53 Joel 2:28 says, "And it shall come to pass afterwards That I
• 14:56 will pour out My Spirit on all flesh: And your sons and your
• 14:59 daughters shall prophesy, And your old men shall dream dreams,
• 15:02 And your young men shall see visions."
• 15:05 Joshua: When I was growing up, I used to love to read about the
• 15:08 powerful moves of God in the past, the men and women who are
• 15:10 used to have prophetic words, to see healings, to have literal
• 15:15 towns and cities changed for God.
• 15:17 I used to always dream about being in one of those time
• 15:21 periods and eras.
• 15:22 We were actually blessed that we were able, at our age, to be in
• 15:26 the presence and in the ministry of some powerful men and women
• 15:29 of God before they passed on to heaven.
• 15:31 We got to experience the literal, tangible presence of
• 15:34 God, see the healings and the prophecies that take place in
• 15:38 the Bible happen in real life right in front of our eyes, so
• 15:42 we never had to question any of those things.
• 15:44 That was not just an isolated movement.
• 15:47 God wants that to be an everyday form of life for us.
• 15:51 But what is the responsibility for that?
• 15:53 Are we gonna see that power of God come back in our lives?
• 15:56 Are we going to see that flow with us?
• 15:57 That responsibility of us is to get the sin out.
• 16:01 God and sin, they can't commune.
• 16:05 If he is not in your presence, it's because there's something
• 16:07 that you had allowed in your life that he is opposed to.
• 16:11 It is our responsibility to get that out.
• 16:14 Can you imagine if every believer on this planet took on
• 16:18 the mantle of Josiah?
• 16:20 If every man, woman, and child said, "It's my responsibility to
• 16:23 get the sin out of my life."
• 16:25 I'm not worried about your life or your life or your life,
• 16:27 but I'm gonna make sure that my life is clean of everything.
• 16:29 All of a sudden, millions of us, empowered by the Holy Spirit,
• 16:33 because we've got all of the sin out of our life.
• 16:36 What a formidable force that would be.
• 16:38 But until that day, and until that moment that we collectively
• 16:41 in unity say, "I don't care what anybody else is doing, but as
• 16:45 for me and my house, we will serve the Lord," then we're not
• 16:49 going to see that outpouring of his Holy Spirit, and there's not
• 16:52 much time left.
• 16:54 Today is the day.
• 16:55 Get the sin out and commune with God.
• 17:01 [singing foreign language]
• 17:11 Caleb: Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and
• 17:16 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
• 17:21 all of your soul, and with all your strength.
• 17:26 Caleb: Hello, everyone.
• 17:27 I'm here with Mel Bond of Mel Bond Ministries.
• 17:30 You even have a television show, "Last Day Signs and Wonders."
• 17:33 Thank you for joining us today.
• 17:35 Joshua: Before--before I let this gentleman talk, we're
• 17:37 talking 50 years of ministry, not just here, but all over the
• 17:41 world, and I have been blessed to have been in his meetings
• 17:44 more than once, to watch him online in person, even to have a
• 17:48 phone call from him, where I said, "Pastor, my shoulder is
• 17:51 hurting," and he prayed, and God showed him what was happening
• 17:54 with my shoulder.
• 17:56 He showed him, like, an actual attack spiritually, and he
• 17:57 prayed over it, and it went like that.
• 17:58 So, I'm so excited for you guys to meet him today and to hear
• 18:02 what he has on his heart for where we're at right now.
• 18:07 Mel Bond: I've--I've spent my--my life in the Word of God,
• 18:12 and I've got some knowledge here that I want people to know.
• 18:16 I want 'em to know my daddy the way I know him.
• 18:21 And--and it's the goodness of God that will lead people to
• 18:23 repentance, that they'll just automatically repent, and that's
• 18:27 what needs to be done in the United States strong today, but
• 18:32 they're not.
• 18:33 True repentance isn't gonna come until--until they discover the
• 18:36 love of God.
• 18:38 The love of God leadeth thee to repentance.
• 18:40 That's who God is.
• 18:42 He is love.
• 18:44 He is unconditional love.
• 18:45 That's not part of his character.
• 18:47 That is--that's--I mean, he--and he says, "I'm the same
• 18:51 yesterday, today, and forever."
• 18:52 There's a host of verses that validate that same statement
• 18:56 that God has always been unconditional love.
• 18:58 He always will be, and when we start discovering that, we're
• 19:03 filled with the fullness of God.
• 19:06 Caleb: And I think it's interesting 'cause we've been
• 19:07 talking about Josiah.
• 19:09 He reformed the kingdom, and--and yes, this was in the
• 19:12 age of a law, and a lot of it was--was with a rod of iron, if
• 19:16 you will.
• 19:18 You know, it was--it was forceful.
• 19:19 He had to destroy everything.
• 19:20 He had to remove it.
• 19:22 And yes, he did offer love, and he said, "People, bring your
• 19:24 love gifts, and we'll repair the temple," and things like that.
• 19:28 But then, when you see when those leaders died, then the
• 19:30 people would fall again into sin.
• 19:32 They weren't taught that true love of God.
• 19:35 They were looking for the God in the clouds who was ready to
• 19:37 punish them if they messed up.
• 19:39 But today is being taught this self-help doctrine in which
• 19:43 everybody still, like the Jews of old, trying to earn their
• 19:47 salvation, trying to earn that love, and because it's so far
• 19:51 unattainable, they don't even read the Word of God, and they
• 19:54 don't know the truth that it’s by love, that it’s a free gift.
• 19:57 Mel: It makes it simple.
• 19:59 And one of the things that I've found over the years that if
• 20:02 it's not simple, it's not God.
• 20:05 You know, Jesus said, Matthew 18:3, he says, "Unless you
• 20:08 become as a little child, you can't enter the kingdom
• 20:10 of heaven."
• 20:11 He wasn’t talking about the abode of God, because earlier,
• 20:14 that was Matthew 18, Matthew 6, he taught his disciples, taught
• 20:19 us, "Pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is
• 20:24 in heaven."
• 20:25 You know, in earth--in heaven, nobody's missing no body parts.
• 20:28 They're not missing eyes, not missing arms and legs, and so,
• 20:33 you gotta be like a little child to believe that.
• 20:36 Love never fails.
• 20:38 I wrote a little mini-book called "Unimaginable Love," and
• 20:42 I take Ephesians 3:19 and that word, "know," and I expounded
• 20:46 the whole book what that word "know” means.
• 20:48 And that word “know,” to know the love of Christ that passes
• 20:52 all knowledge, it has more meanings than just to
• 20:55 know intellectually.
• 20:57 First you have to know it intellectually, but then you
• 20:59 read the Bible and you learn to talk words of love.
• 21:03 You have actions of love.
• 21:04 You think love.
• 21:06 You--in other words, you're driving down the highway and
• 21:10 some guy gives you this hand signal and it's not like this,
• 21:13 you know.
• 21:15 Joshua: There's only one of 'em selected at that moment, right?
• 21:16 Mel: And so, that's when you react in love.
• 21:21 You don't act naturally what you wanna do, you know.
• 21:26 When people discover the unconditional love of God in
• 21:30 their life, their "want tos" change.
• 21:33 You know, even--now, this sounds a little gross, but it's in the
• 21:36 Bible in 1 Peter, where it says, "The person that goes into sin
• 21:40 is like the dog eating his vomit."
• 21:43 And the greatest pleasures that this world has to offer is vomit
• 21:49 compared to what God has.
• 21:51 The pleasures of holiness outrules the best--the greatest
• 21:59 pleasures this world could ever offer.
• 22:03 And so, when we--when we discover the great depths of how
• 22:07 much God loves you--I remember several years ago, that it
• 22:11 was--I was 39 years of age, and I went to heaven.
• 22:15 I had seen Jesus.
• 22:16 Just to make a long story short, that I was walking down the
• 22:19 street, and I was talking to different people I've seen.
• 22:23 Then I heard--it was probably about--maybe about 100 feet in
• 22:26 back of me, I'm walking down this road, and I heard my
• 22:30 name, "Mel!"
• 22:32 I turned and it was Jesus, and he had brown eyes just like
• 22:35 you guys.
• 22:36 Caleb: Yes, we look like Jesus.
• 22:38 Mel: And he come kind of trotting to me with his arms out
• 22:41 like this, and he put his arms around me and hugged me, and he
• 22:44 says, "Oh, so good to see you."
• 22:46 And he made me feel--I'll never forget this.
• 22:50 Any time i have a hard--I'm going through a hard time, I
• 22:54 remember, I go back and think of this.
• 22:57 He made me feel like I was his best friend, like there was
• 23:01 nobody else in--in existence but me, that he loved me.
• 23:06 And it's--and it's--it's the goodness of God that these
• 23:08 people repentance.
• 23:12 David: The guys were teaching about Josiah smashing idols, and
• 23:15 I've just got to think that he probably made some enemies
• 23:18 through this, right?
• 23:20 Joshua: You kinda always make enemies when you're doing what's
• 23:22 right because that means you gotta tell everybody they're
• 23:24 doing what's wrong, and that's not a very popular thing to
• 23:27 hear, not in any time period.
• 23:29 Caleb: I'm sure it took massive courage because he was
• 23:31 realigning the country's laws of man with the laws of God, and
• 23:35 sometimes that hurts the flesh.
• 23:36 We get used to doing sin over and over again.
• 23:39 It becomes perpetual, becomes habit, and to break those habits
• 23:42 can become painful.
• 23:43 Kristen: I've got to say, it's the mama, maybe the grandma
• 23:46 heart in me, that he, like, put to death all these priests that
• 23:52 were--I'm gonna--I'm gonna take a--a different viewpoint.
• 23:55 They were just doing their jobs, what they were raised to do,
• 23:58 probably thought that's who they were called to be.
• 24:01 I'm j--you know, and isn't that a little harsh to kill them all,
• 24:05 he couldn't have converted them.
• 24:06 Caleb: But remember, at this time, Jeremiah was prophesying
• 24:09 words of judgment and destruction.
• 24:11 They heard the truth.
• 24:12 God is not unjust.
• 24:14 He makes sure everybody has that choice, that opportunity.
• 24:17 But right now, in America, we've come to the same point that the
• 24:21 kingdom of Judah did in the past.
• 24:23 And you look at our country, I don't think we're any better
• 24:26 than the nation of Judah before.
• 24:27 We've legalized homosexual marriages.
• 24:29 Finally, Roe versus Wade was thrown out, but, you know, each
• 24:33 state is trying to bring back abortion, and that's
• 24:34 child sacrifice.
• 24:36 Sexual perversion is running rampant, and--and it's all about
• 24:40 indoctrinating our children into these lifestyles, these ways.
• 24:43 We see witchcraft prevalent everywhere, but it's--it's fun.
• 24:47 It's TV shows.
• 24:48 It's, you know, role-playing.
• 24:50 And it's no different from the times of the past, and I believe
• 24:52 judgment is coming to our nation if we don't take action and
• 24:55 repent like Josiah did.
• 24:56 He cleaned house.
• 24:58 I mean, he went door-to-door finding any house idol that
• 25:02 people had to make sure that they would not be under
• 25:05 the curse.
• 25:06 What would happen if we had a leader like that in
• 25:08 America today?
• 25:09 Kristen: Can you--But--no, you go ahead.
• 25:11 David: Yeah, the point is that we need to follow his example.
• 25:15 Kristen: Right, but who's the person that literally can go
• 25:18 door-to-door and go, "Okay, that's out, that's out."
• 25:21 How do you do that in today's society?
• 25:23 Joshua: You can't in the same way as far as demanding it
• 25:25 because we don't have king.
• 25:27 But because we have a platform like the internet, one person
• 25:30 can reach every door in the world, and instead of going in
• 25:34 there and demanding and saying, "This was the ultimatum," you
• 25:37 stand and just speak the truth.
• 25:39 You know, Josiah had the right to tell them.
• 25:41 Well, we have the right given to us by the Father to declare the
• 25:44 truth, and so, we can knock on every door of every internet, of
• 25:47 every chat room, of every social media page, of anything out
• 25:49 there and say, "This is the truth, and it's time to repent,
• 25:52 because without repentance, you will pay the price for
• 25:55 your actions."
• 25:56 God is a loving God who only gives us so many opportunities
• 25:59 before it's finally time to pay for those sins that we've been
• 26:02 engaged in.
• 26:03 It's time today to exercise that repentance and be the one
• 26:06 person, even if it's only you, that's standing for truth.
• 26:09 David: Amen.
• 26:10 We'll be right back.
• 26:12 Joshua: You know when a really cool movie comes out and they
• 26:14 make a novelization of it which goes into way more depth than
• 26:16 the movie's times allotted but then the book ends up sucking?
• 26:19 Well, this is not that scenario.
• 26:20 This week, we're offering the book, "Josiah and the Last
• 26:23 Reformation," written by my little brother.
• 26:25 Caleb plays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
• 26:28 giving behind the scenes details of how we filmed our series at
• 26:31 the onslaught of the war with Hamas.
• 26:33 Learn more about idol smashing in "Josiah in the
• 26:36 Last Reformation."
• 26:37 Like I'd even read.
• 26:39 Caleb: Josh, we're still recording!
• 26:41 Joshua: Uh-oh.
• 26:42 Kristen: Today's topic is not an easy one to share, but it is
• 26:47 truth, and that's our heartbeat here in this ministry.
• 26:52 We want to declare the truth of the Word of God.
• 26:55 How do we do that?
• 26:56 We only can proclaim the Word to you and on the air through your
• 27:01 financial gift, so thank you for helping us get the Word out.
• 27:06 David: Also, so far in this series, you guys have been all
• 27:10 over Israel.
• 27:12 Man, you've been a lot of places.
• 27:13 I've even heard you kind of panting a little bit and having
• 27:15 to climb places and things like that.
• 27:18 Joshua: People don't understand the topography of Israel.
• 27:20 There’s a height there every once in awhile.
• 27:22 David: We go there, and we wanna go there with you guys soon, and
• 27:25 we would love for you to join us on a tour.
• 27:28 You can find all the information on levitt.com.
• 27:30 Pray about joining us, and getting on a bus, and going to
• 27:34 these sites in Israel.
• 27:35 Joshua: That's right.
• 27:37 Well, everybody tune in next week for an amazing story, but
• 27:38 until then, remember sha'alum shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:41 Kristen: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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