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Episode: “Hanukkah Hoedown”

Joshua and Caleb celebrate their first holiday on Our Jewish Roots by recalling six years of the Bearded Bible Brothers’ most controversial Hanukkah teachings. Also, the brothers honor Yeshua’s birth even though we don’t know its actual date.

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Caption transcript for “Hanukkah Hoedown”

00:01 ♪♪♪
00:07 Joshua Colson: Welcome, children, and welcome, everyone,
00:09 to the first annual "Bearded Bible Brothers" holiday special.
00:18 Hanukkah is everywhere.
00:19 It's all around us, even now in this very room.
00:23 You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on
00:26 your television.
00:27 You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to synagogue,
00:30 when you pay your taxes.
00:32 It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind
00:35 you from the truth.
00:37 Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is.
00:41 Caleb Colson: Josh, what are you doing?
00:42 There's kids watching.
00:44 Joshua: Oh, my bad.
00:45 Caleb: You're supposed to be telling 'em what the true story
00:47 of Hanukkah really is.
00:48 Joshua: That's right.
00:50 Don't worry, don't worry at all.
00:51 I won't say the C-word.
00:52 I know how all the Jews can't stand the word Christmas.
00:54 Caleb: Josh!
00:55 Joshua: Oh, so sorry.
00:57 Sorry, yes, of course.
00:58 Children.
01:00 'Twas the night before Hanukkah, and all through the beit, not an
01:05 unkosher creature was stirring, not even a potbelly pig.
01:09 The menorahs were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that
01:12 Judah Maccabee soon would be there.
01:15 The yellow dudes were nestled all snug in their beds while
01:19 visions of dreidels spun in their heads.
01:26 This is your last chance.
01:28 After this, there is no turning back.
01:31 You take the blue pill, the story ends.
01:33 You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want
01:35 to believe.
01:36 You take the red pill, and you stay in wonderland.
01:38 And I show you how deep this rabbit hole really goes.
01:41 Caleb: Josh, no!
01:43 Joshua: Oh, that's right.
01:44 My bad.
01:45 Oh, sorry.
01:47 Don't say a word.
01:48 My bad, my bad.
01:49 Okay, children, who wants to go bobbing for matzo ball
01:52 soup, huh?
01:53 Anybody?
01:55 Come on, I know you're Jewish for sure.
01:56 Let's make this happen.
01:58 Caleb: This was a terrible idea.
02:00 Joshua: I smell Gentile.
02:05 Joshua: Now, let's look back at our very first holiday special
02:08 as the "Bearded Bible Brothers," discussing the origins of
02:11 Christmas and Hanukkah.
02:13 So much spit, brother.
02:16 ♪ We live on forever, forever, forever. ♪
02:21 ♪ We live on forever, forever, forever. ♪
02:28 ♪ Oh, Christmas tree. ♪
02:29 ♪ Oh, Christmas tree. ♪
02:31 ♪ Your pagan ways persuade me. ♪
02:35 Joshua: I love Christmas so much.
02:38 Caleb: We're Jews.
02:39 We don't celebrate Christmas.
02:41 Joshua: We don't?
02:42 Caleb: Well, that's what they say we're not supposed to.
02:44 We celebrate Hanukkah.
02:46 Joshua: I love Hanukkah.
02:47 I just didn't have a Hanukkah song.
02:49 Ooh, there's that one cool Hanukkah song.
02:51 So I can't celebrate Christmas as a Jew?
02:54 Caleb: Well, some people wonder should we even celebrate
02:56 Christmas if they are believers?
02:57 You know, the roots of Christmas came from pagan origin.
03:01 You've heard about the Babylonian Nimrod,
03:05 Semiramis, Tammuz?
03:07 Joshua: Who hasn't?
03:08 Caleb: Tammuz dying his blood, pouring on the stump of a tree,
03:10 growing up into an evergreen tree.
03:12 His birth, they claim, is the-- is Christmas celebration.
03:17 And so you start to wonder, "Should we celebrate something
03:20 of pagan origin?"
03:21 'Cause later on, believers, they took these pagan holidays, and
03:25 they start to celebrate good things: All Saints' Day for
03:29 Halloween and, you know, Christmas and--but the question
03:33 is, should we even celebrate that?
03:35 Joshua: No, we know that Yeshua wasn't born on December 25.
03:39 He was born in, like, September--Monday.
03:42 Caleb: No one knows when he was really born.
03:44 Joshua: But that's not the point.
03:46 Caleb: The point is that Satan was only counterfeiting what he
03:49 had already seen.
03:51 He was in the garden.
03:52 He's seen the tree of life.
03:54 So he took the symbol of the tree of life and tried to
03:57 pervert it, and you can see that throughout all the cultures of
04:00 the centuries.
04:01 You know, whether Nordic culture and pagan worship--they worship
04:04 trees, the world tree, because he knew what the tree
04:07 really represented.
04:08 It represented our future where we could return back to Eden, we
04:12 could eat from the tree of life.
04:13 The menorah also represents the tree of life, and each of these
04:18 are its branches.
04:20 Joshua: I think I'm tired of all of these dumb pagan things
04:23 stealing all of our good stuff.
04:26 I think it's time for us to stop just giving up and rolling over
04:29 and allowing the enemy to come and take all of the things that
04:33 Yeshua intended for us.
04:34 Caleb: That's true.
04:36 With Hanukkah, what can we remember as believers or as
04:40 Gentiles: that this holiday is the Festival of Lights.
04:43 We remember of God's providence in supplying light to
04:46 the temple.
04:48 And not just his providence, it was after an abomination of
04:50 desolation by Antiochus Epiphanes.
04:52 We can remember that there is an abomination of desolation to
04:54 come with Satan coming in the flesh, being made carnate, and
04:58 sitting on the holy of holies in the temple.
05:02 I know that's all scary, and this is Christmas.
05:03 We're supposed to be happy.
05:04 That's why we focus on Yeshua for Christmas.
05:07 Joshua: And we have
05:08 abomination-of-desolation-free parties.
05:09 Caleb: God made flesh and dwelt among us.
05:12 He's Immanuel.
05:13 We can look at both holidays, see the good in it, find Yeshua
05:17 in both of it, and praise him for this time that we can get
05:21 nonbelievers--we can get the world to focus on Yeshua.
05:24 Don't take Christ out of Christmas.
05:27 Joshua: Don't let this holiday season be a time of separation
05:30 and segregation.
05:31 But like Caleb said, let it be focused on the sole purpose,
05:35 which is Yeshua.
05:36 Let this time be for Gentiles and Jews and for everyone in
05:39 this world to remember the birth of our Savior, to remember that
05:43 glorious moment where all of eternity was changed because God
05:48 came in the flesh and inhabited this beautiful little baby boy.
05:52 And from the most humble of beginnings, our Savior, our
05:55 Messiah, was born, and he was born to set the captive free.
06:00 Caleb: Mazel tov, Josh.
06:02 Let's celebrate.
06:03 See you next time.
06:06 Joshua: What was in that?
06:09 Is that Hanukkah punch?
06:11 Caleb: It's almost--
06:12 Joshua: It's kind of gamy.
06:15 But like cloven-hoof gamy.
06:18 I think I'm in trouble.
06:20 ♪♪♪
06:30 ♪♪♪
06:35 ♪ I'm dreaming of a blue Hanukkah ♪
06:40 ♪ just like the ones I used to know. ♪
06:44 ♪ Eight crazy nights ♪
06:46 ♪ of Jewish, wonderful things. ♪
06:50 ♪ Eight wonderful nights of Jewish, ♪
06:52 ♪ wonderful things. ♪♪
06:55 Joshua: Well, I washed all of my major body parts, including
07:01 in between my toes and in my belly button with adult soap,
07:04 which I've never done before, but I kind of liked.
07:07 I washed my hair with adult formula shampoo and put
07:10 conditioner on it for that just-washed shine.
07:15 That's right.
07:16 I couldn't find my toothbrush, but I'll pick one up when I'm
07:19 out today, which means that I am almost completely ready.
07:26 All right.
07:27 [humming]
07:37 [screaming]
07:42 ♪♪♪
07:52 Joshua: Ready for this?
07:53 Caleb: Hold on.
07:54 I got dreidel.
07:56 Joshua: The dreidel, the original fidget.
07:57 Are you welcome?
07:58 You ready?
08:00 Let's go.
08:01 This is the most epic start to any "Bearded Bible Brothers"
08:04 series ever.
08:05 Caleb: That is really loud.
08:06 Joshua: Because we're--well, that ended fast.
08:08 Okay, well, it was really cool while it started.
08:10 You can imagine how short conversations were back then if
08:12 they were based off the speed of the spinning device.
08:15 And you're done.
08:16 What are we talking about today, brother?
08:18 Caleb: Hanukkah!
08:19 Joshua: Hanukkah, do you say?
08:20 Caleb: Hanukkah is fantastic.
08:22 Joshua: So much spit when we say Hanukkah.
08:23 Caleb: We love Hanukkah.
08:25 Joshua: It's really gross for some people and really amazing
08:27 for us.
08:28 Caleb: Today, we're gonna talk about the abomination
08:33 of desolation.
08:37 And Hanukkah.
08:38 Well, doom and destruction awaits you.
08:41 And we have a scripture that warns what happens after the
08:44 third temple is built 3 1/2 years exactly after it's built.
08:47 Joshua: I'm glad you asked.
08:48 Matthew 24:15-16 says,
08:51 "Therefore when you see the--"
08:52 hold on.
08:53 Hold on.
08:55 You said there was no abomination of desolation
08:56 in this episode.
08:58 Caleb: Read it, Josh.
08:59 Back in 167 BC, the Greco-Syrian ruler, Antiochus Epiphanes,
09:03 goes about and hellenizes all of Israel.
09:07 He outlaws the worship of Yahweh, basically.
09:10 Joshua: Is that what hellenizes means?
09:12 Because when I hear big words like
09:13 anti-something, Epiphanius.
09:16 Caleb: He sets up Greek idols.
09:18 Joshua: Oh, okay, yeah.
09:21 Caleb: It's time for Greek deity worship.
09:22 He commits the abomination of desolation, and he outlaws
09:24 things like observing Sabbath.
09:27 He outlaws things like circumcision.
09:30 Joshua: What a tool.
09:32 Caleb: Yeah, we won't get into that.
09:34 But he desecrated the temple.
09:36 He sacrificed swine on the altar.
09:38 He set up an altar of Zeus.
09:39 And so a lot of people think, "Well, that's a
09:41 one-and-done thing."
09:43 We talked before about prophecy, how there's sometimes three
09:46 parts of prophecy.
09:47 There's a fulfillment in their present day, there's a future
09:51 fulfillment, and there's a spiritual application.
09:53 Well, Yeshua said, "Hey, this isn't over yet.
09:56 Daniel's prophecy of abomination has yet to come."
09:59 He spoke about that in Matthew 24.
10:01 Joshua: He did.
10:03 Matthew 24:15-16 says,
10:04 "Therefore when you see the
10:06 'abomination of desolation,'
10:07 spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
10:09 standing in the holy place
10:10 (whoever reads, let him understand),
10:12 then let those who are in Judea flee to
10:15 the mountains."
10:16 Caleb: Yes.
10:17 And Paul also reiterates this in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
10:20 Joshua: He says in verses 3 and 4, "The man of sin is revealed,
10:23 the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above
10:26 all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as
10:29 God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
10:32 Caleb: See?
10:34 And now you understand the correlation.
10:35 That's the true meaning of Hanukkah, right?
10:37 Joshua: I tell you, I know you at home are probably sitting and
10:40 thinking, "On the first night of Hanukkah, history brought to me
10:45 three abominations of desolation."
10:48 Not what I think of.
10:50 Caleb: All right.
10:51 Here was a moment in history where the world was together in
10:53 one voice, they all came together to build this tower.
10:56 Yes, it was in defiance of God.
10:57 God scattered them.
10:59 But they were all together in one voice.
11:00 He says that will not happen until we build the third temple.
11:03 Now, when we build the third temple, the whole world will
11:06 come together in one voice.
11:08 They will worship the God of Israel.
11:11 Chills down my spine because he just spoke prophecy, what it
11:15 talks about in the book of Revelation.
11:17 But it's in counterfeit 'cause, yes, the whole world comes
11:20 together in peace--"Peace, peace," they will say, but there
11:23 is no peace.
11:24 It will look like peace.
11:26 It will be a false peace, a false treaty with Israel and the
11:28 world with her enemies, but something bad will happen.
11:31 Daniel 9:27.
11:32 Joshua: Daniel 9:27, "Then he shall confirm
11:34 a covenant with many for one week;
11:36 but in the middle of the week he shall
11:38 bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
11:40 And on the wing of abominations shall be one
11:43 who makes desolate."
11:45 Caleb: Guys, the first Nimrod, the first Antichrist, if you
11:49 will, built the Tower of Babel, united the world in defiance
11:53 against God.
11:54 The last Nimrod, the beast, will also unite the entire world
11:58 together in a way to defy God.
12:00 But they're--both of their plans are the same, and that's
12:03 totalitarianism of the entire world under their iron fist in
12:08 order that they might stick it to God and destroy his
12:11 Jewish people.
12:12 Just where we've lived during the past two years, we've had--
12:16 we weren't allowed to go to church.
12:18 We were prohibited from going to church.
12:20 There's times where you couldn't go to work.
12:22 There's times where you had to wear a mask everywhere.
12:25 And now coming up in January, there is a mandate in which
12:29 nearly everyone in the United States is gonna have to receive
12:32 a vaccine, or else they are gonna be booted out of
12:37 their job.
12:38 And, to me, that sounds kind of familiar scripturally.
12:42 "Don't get this, or else you can't buy, sell, or trade."
12:45 That's somewhere in scripture, Josh.
12:47 Joshua: Guys, oh, guys.
12:50 It is in scripture.
12:51 I'm glad you asked.
12:53 Revelation 13:16-17 says, "He causes all,
12:57 both small and great, rich and poor,
12:59 free and slave, to receive a mark on
13:00 their right hand or on their foreheads,
13:03 and that no one may buy or sell
13:05 except those who has the mark or the name
13:07 of the beast, or the number of his name."
13:10 Caleb: Immediately after that abomination takes place, that's
13:12 when Satan, you know, he's resurrected, he indwells the
13:16 body of a beast, he commits the abomination, and then he demands
13:20 everybody, like the scripture Josh read, receive that mark, or
13:23 they cannot buy, sell, or trade.
13:25 And eventually, if they don't worship the beast, if they don't
13:28 receive that mark, they will be beheaded.
13:30 Now, we're seeing entire cities, even in America, where you
13:33 cannot go inside a store, you cannot go to a restaurant, you
13:36 cannot go to work, unless you've received a vaccine.
13:39 We're seeing entire states where if children do not receive the
13:42 vaccine, they can't go to school.
13:44 And even internationally, we're now seeing a country, and
13:48 probably many more to follow that, if you do not receive a
13:50 vaccine, you're gonna be locked away in your home until you
13:53 decide to yield.
13:54 Joshua: But what we're trying to say is, who has the right to
13:57 tell you your belief?
13:58 We live in America, and America was founded on the principle of
14:02 freedom for each individual to make a choice.
14:06 And yet here we stand not even 300 years later, and America has
14:10 not only attempted, but has, in a little over a year and a half,
14:14 not even quite two years, swayed the public opinion to such a
14:19 percentage that around a lot of environments, if you even
14:23 question the concept of any of these things we talked about,
14:26 you have become an egregious person trying to bring hate,
14:29 trying to bring sickness, and trying to bring harm to people
14:33 around you.
14:34 Caleb: So right now, there are Christians supporting,
14:36 fundraising, and preparing for the third temple to be built.
14:40 Everybody thinks this is a good thing.
14:42 Well, not always everybody.
14:44 We're trying to explain that the reasoning behind this, why we
14:48 don't want to support this, is we want more time to the Jewish
14:52 people to come to know their Messiah.
14:55 The initiation point of the temple being built is the
14:58 beginning of the tribulation.
15:00 And when that happens, we know the first three and a half years
15:03 are gonna be great for the Jewish people.
15:04 They're gonna be worshiping, they're gonna be praising God,
15:06 they're gonna be sacrificing.
15:07 At the three-and-a-half-year point, that's when it all hits
15:10 the fan.
15:11 And the last three and a half years is the time of Jacob's
15:14 trouble, the time of the greatest persecution and
15:17 onslaught that has come against the Jewish people since the
15:19 beginning of time.
15:21 The beast will be annihilating them left and right.
15:23 And so when the Christians are saying, "Yeah, we want the
15:25 temple to be built 'cause that makes Messiah come quickly,"
15:28 we'll say, "Well, that's seven years around the corner of great
15:31 and terrible things that are happening.
15:33 And how do you know that those Jews will make it to look upon
15:37 him who they have pierced at the end of the seven years and
15:39 finally believe in Yeshua?"
15:40 Because only one third of them will make it according
15:43 to scripture.
15:44 ♪♪♪
15:54 ♪♪♪
16:01 Joshua: Wow, that was really heavy.
16:05 Antichrists, abominations of desolation, COVID plagues.
16:10 I guess I just have no idea what Hanukkah is all about.
16:14 Can someone, anyone, tell me what Hanukkah is really
16:19 all about?
16:21 Ah!
16:23 Caleb: Sure, Charles Brownie.
16:25 I can tell you what Christmas-- I mean, Hanukkah--is all about.
16:39 "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the
16:43 fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
16:46 And lo, an angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of
16:50 the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.
16:55 And the angel said, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring you tidings
17:01 of great joy, as shall be for all people.
17:04 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,
17:09 which is Christ the Lord.
17:10 And this shall be a sign unto you: ye shall find the babe
17:14 wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.'
17:19 And suddenly there was with the angel a great multitude of the
17:22 heavenly host praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the
17:27 highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'"
17:34 ♪♪♪
17:41 That's what Christmas--I mean, Hanukkah--is all about.
17:48 Joshua: Not bad.
17:51 ♪♪♪
18:01 ♪♪♪
18:11 ♪♪♪
18:21 ♪♪♪
18:28 Joshua: Hey, everybody.
18:30 I'm Joshua.
18:32 And if you didn't know this already, I've been blessed to
18:35 have portrayed Yeshua for nearly 20 years now.
18:39 When have I portrayed him?
18:42 I'm glad you ask.
18:43 Always when he dies.
18:45 That's right, I always have to play our Lord and Savior at
18:49 his death.
18:51 Now, it's great I generally get to resurrect, but there seems to
18:54 be a stigma about a man such as my age playing the newborn
18:59 baby Jesus.
19:01 And I'm gonna be honest, this year is my year.
19:03 Caleb: Josh, you're a 40-year-old man.
19:05 You can't play baby Jesus.
19:06 Joshua: I have range.
19:08 I think if you look within your heart, realize that my initials
19:11 are JC, my mother's name is Mary, I am Jewish, then you,
19:16 too, can feel what I'm feeling right now, which is the birth of
19:20 our Savior.
19:22 Merry Christmas.
19:23 Can we say that?
19:24 Happy Hannukah?
19:26 Are we allowed to say--what are we allowed to say?
19:27 Everybody gets mad when we say things at the end.
19:28 But how about you enjoy your time celebrating Jesus?
19:30 Is that a--sorry, Yeshua.
19:33 Caleb: You just can't win this.
19:34 Joshua: I don't know.
19:36 Caleb: We're doing a very special edition called
19:37 "Mythbusters About Christmas."
19:40 Joshua: "MythBusters" is already a show.
19:42 Caleb: Okay, the "Dispelling Christmas Myths?"
19:46 Joshua: Yeah, yeah, that'll work.
19:48 Caleb: That doesn't have quite the ring to it.
19:49 Joshua: Pretty lame title, but we'll do that.
19:50 Caleb: Anyways, we know that many Jewish people, believing
19:53 Jews, and some of you Gentile Christians get a bad taste in
19:56 your mouth when you hear the term Christmas.
19:59 Joshua: Real angry.
20:00 Caleb: You're like, "Isn't that a pagan holiday?"
20:02 You know, December 25 wasn't even Yeshua's
20:04 birthday and all that un-kosher ham and bacon-wrapped shrimp.
20:08 Joshua: We've read your comments.
20:09 We know how you feel.
20:11 Caleb: So we thought we'd take on a few of these myths and see
20:14 if we can bring any clarity, and we probably won't.
20:17 But let's take on the first myth, Josh.
20:19 Joshua: All right, myth number one: Jesus was born on
20:25 December 25.
20:26 Caleb: We know Yeshua wasn't born on December 25.
20:29 Yes, we know Yeshua is not born on December 25.
20:33 We have taught many times before that the closest calculations we
20:36 can deduce to the actual day of Yeshua's birth is by looking at
20:41 Zacharias, John the Baptist's father.
20:43 He was of the priestly order of Abijah, and twice a year he
20:47 would go in and do service.
20:48 So from that point that he heard from the angel that John was
20:51 gonna be born, we calculate the birth of John, and then we
20:55 connect that with Mary's pregnancy, and then that's how
20:59 we get that final day of either--eh, day?
21:02 It's a 50/50 shot of either March or September when Yeshua
21:05 could have been born.
21:07 Joshua: December 25 was a pagan
21:08 holiday originally chosen by the
21:10 church fathers to get
21:11 the rest of the Roman world
21:13 to jump on the bandwagon.
21:15 Caleb: Well, interesting, they-- most people say in 274 AD, they
21:19 go back to that time with the Roman emperor Aurelian.
21:22 He created the feast Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun,
21:27 around December 25.
21:29 This is around the time of many pagan Roman holidays.
21:32 And so people say, "Look, it was based off of that pagan
21:35 Roman holiday."
21:36 Or they say, "Look back to the Babylonian calendar with Nimrod,
21:39 his death, and the celebration of the rebirth of Nimrod as
21:43 Tammuz with the Yule log and the Christmas trees and all that."
21:46 And they say, "Okay, that's where the pagan institution
21:48 come from."
21:49 People hate the Christmas tree and all the different symbols
21:53 because they say they have pagan influences.
21:55 Well, they may have pagan influences, but you look at,
21:59 say, the tree of life, Josh, in the Garden of Eden, and that's
22:03 where we get the menorah.
22:04 The menorah is actually a representation of the tree
22:07 of life.
22:08 And so Lucifer, Satan, saw that tree, and he only mimics the
22:11 good and tries to turn evil.
22:12 So trees itself aren't evil, guys.
22:15 They aren't bad.
22:16 They're just being used as a symbol of evil, just
22:18 like rainbows.
22:19 Hey, my kid loves to color rainbows.
22:21 She's in kindergarten.
22:22 So does that make--you know, we can't color rainbows 'cause
22:25 they're evil?
22:26 Joshua: No.
22:27 Caleb: What about, you know, lights, you know, decorating
22:29 with lights?
22:30 You know, Hanukkah is the Feast of Lights.
22:31 Joshua: Feast of Lights.
22:33 Now, we'll be honest, if it's your house and you have a Tammuz
22:35 tree and you're celebrating the rebirth of Nimrod, your tree
22:38 is evil.
22:39 Do not bring it to my house.
22:41 ♪♪♪
22:50 Joshua: "She will give birth to a son; and you shall call Him
22:52 Yeshua, for He will save His people from their sins."
22:56 Caleb: And so should we celebrate Christmas, Josh, this
22:59 December 25?
23:01 Joshua: No!
23:02 Wait, yes!
23:04 Caleb: How else are we gonna witness to the world about the
23:05 birth of our Savior and explain to them, like Daniel had to
23:08 explain to Nebuchadnezzar to all these people, that he is the God
23:13 who came down to earth as a man made like us?
23:16 Immanuel, God with us.
23:18 This is our opportunity, guys.
23:20 If you get everybody in the world to jump on the bandwagon
23:23 and pick September as Yeshua's birthday, we'll join with you.
23:26 But right now, we have December 25.
23:28 That's what we have to use.
23:29 You see, guys, God gave the ultimate redemption offering.
23:33 He paid the ransom price, gave a pure and spotless Lamb, so that
23:38 Israel could be saved, everyone could be saved.
23:41 And--but first she had to have Immanuel come into being, as we
23:45 read in Isaiah.
23:47 Joshua: Isaiah 7:14 says, "Therefore the Lord Himself will
23:50 give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a
23:54 Son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
23:57 Just remember: if you already know Yeshua as your Lord and
24:00 Savior, you know because somebody else took the
24:03 opportunity to share that message with you.
24:06 Just imagine what your life would be like or what you would
24:09 be facing today if you didn't already know Yeshua.
24:12 You, too, would want somebody to reach out for you for your
24:16 eternal soul.
24:17 And you, too, would want to ensure that as much time is here
24:20 as possible to reach all those others.
24:22 But the deal is this: peace will finally come to the earth, and
24:25 it will come when Yeshua sits on that throne.
24:28 He's the only one who could bring peace on earth.
24:30 He came as a baby, and he lived a sinless life.
24:32 He died on the cross for your sins.
24:33 And after three days in the grave, he rose from the dead.
24:36 Right now, he sits on the throne in heaven waiting for you to
24:39 make the choice to choose him as your God.
24:41 And if you choose today, you're assured an eternity in heaven
24:44 with him.
24:45 Don't gamble away your life.
24:47 With all the doom and destruction that's going on,
24:48 with all the wars and everything that's happening, don't risk
24:51 your good life, your "my personal truth," your--all the
24:56 catchphrases of the day that you think may give you assurance,
25:00 'cause there is only one assurance, and that's
25:01 the Yeshua.
25:03 Isaiah 9:6-7 says, "For unto us a Child is born, and unto us a
25:07 Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulders.
25:11 And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
25:18 Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
25:22 Of the increase of His government
25:24 and peace there will be no end, upon the throne
25:27 of David and over His kingdom, to order it
25:30 and establish it with judgment and justice
25:32 from that time forward, and even forever.
25:35 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
25:39 [fake snoring]
25:42 [mimicking baby cry]
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26:16 Caleb: Ho ho ho ho.
26:18 Joshua: Just wow.
26:20 That's all I gotta say, wow.
26:21 Caleb: A little bit controversial.
26:22 Joshua: I used to think it was bad when you had tricked me
26:24 into these one-episode moments.
26:25 We just put all the episodes of all the controversy
26:28 into one episode.
26:29 Way to go, brother.
26:30 Caleb: It was a fantastic montage of things that rub
26:32 people the wrong way.
26:33 It's not that we're trying to offend anybody.
26:35 We just wanna speak the truth in love, and that's the message for
26:39 this season for this end of the year.
26:41 It's about unity, Josh.
26:42 Joshua: It is about unity.
26:44 We're living in a time period that is possibly one of the most
26:46 controversial in all of mankind.
26:48 The recent presidential races were intense.
26:51 It divided literal families like never before.
26:54 So if you're gonna get caught up in all of the controversy, I
26:57 think you're gonna be missing what God has for you.
26:59 You see, the entire point is unity.
27:02 He sent Yeshua to bring love and to combine those believers
27:06 together in one accord like we see in Acts 2. We see the Holy
27:09 Spirit has a hard time working through us collectively when we
27:12 don't have unity together.
27:14 So getting caught up in the minutia, getting caught up in
27:16 the part of the job that is the Holy Spirit's to do, which is
27:19 convict, isn't why we're here this season.
27:21 We're here to worship Yeshua to celebrate together in love.
27:24 Caleb: That's right.
27:26 A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, and that's why we
27:28 need to be united together.
27:30 Two or more, we can do anything on this earth, and Satan is
27:34 going to run from us.
27:36 So we also wanna thank you for your continued donations, your
27:40 gifts of funds that keep this program going.
27:42 We couldn't do it without people sending us out without people
27:45 supporting us financially.
27:46 That's still a denomination we have to use on this earth.
27:48 But we use every penny toward the gospel of Yeshua going out
27:52 to the entire world.
27:53 Joshua: Remember, everyone has a job to do.
27:54 Ours is to go out.
27:56 Yours is to support, yours is to go out.
27:58 Whatever yours is called, that's what God wants you to do.
28:00 And we are so grateful for our partnership together in this
28:04 family getting to do what we do.
28:06 Remember: sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
28:09 Caleb: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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