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• 00:10 Caleb Colson: Well, this is it.
• 00:11 Finally, we return.
• 00:13 Although this series will air around one year after the events
• 00:16 of October 7, we are finally returning to Israel, seven
• 00:20 months after the war began.
• 00:25 Joshua Colson: We really don't know what to expect, but just
• 00:27 for a recap of our historic trip that changed Israel for all
• 00:31 time, this is what happened when God sent us on our inaugural
• 00:34 visit to Israel, in 2023.
• 00:37 Joshua: Trust me, I get that it can be scary.
• 00:40 And no matter what they try to bring against you in this life,
• 00:43 he stands for you and he defends you.
• 00:46 The bombs are going off behind me, right now, you can hear it.
• 00:49 We're living in the last time, in the last age.
• 00:52 You don't have time anymore to say, "It's not my job."
• 00:56 We don't have time to live in complacency and say we love
• 00:59 Yeshua on a Sunday, or on a Wednesday, but then go live like
• 01:03 the world, and hide in complacency every time you've
• 01:06 been called to speak the truth in love, and those who don't
• 01:09 know, those who are sitting there when these sirens go off
• 01:12 and may lose their life today will spend an eternity separated
• 01:16 from the Father.
• 01:18 Reform begins today and it begins with you, and all he's
• 01:22 asked you to do is stand for him.
• 01:24 Stand for him the way he died for you, with his head held
• 01:28 high, saying, "That is my son."
• 01:32 Just as we're called to say, "He is my father."
• 01:39 Caleb: Now we have a plan, we have contacts, we have a
• 01:42 schedule set up, but all that might change.
• 01:44 We have to be versatile, because the situation is constantly
• 01:47 changing in Israel.
• 01:49 They are in the middle of a war with Hamas, and we know that a
• 01:52 full-fledged war has been rumored to open up with
• 01:54 Hezbollah, any day now, and of course, threats from Iran.
• 01:58 So we have to be versatile, but we are listening to the Holy
• 02:00 Spirit, and as he directs us, we're going to move and we're
• 02:03 going to take action.
• 02:05 But all of this is so that we can tell the story of Israel's
• 02:08 past, present, and future in what we are calling, "Rebuilding
• 02:12 the Ruined Cities."
• 02:20 Caleb: We know we are living in the last days, and everything
• 02:23 centers around Israel, as usual.
• 02:25 If you watched our chronological telling of End Time's events,
• 02:29 our series "Roadmap to Armageddon," we see that there's
• 02:31 moments of reprieve for Israel and some really scary moments.
• 02:35 It's just an up and down roller-coaster.
• 02:37 It reminds me of Jeremiah's prophecy to the king of Judah
• 02:41 when God warned him that Babylon was coming.
• 02:43 In Jeremiah 6:14, it says, "Be dressed the wound of my people
• 02:47 with very little care, saying peace, peace.
• 02:50 When there is no peace at all."
• 02:53 This series is going to be unlike anything we've ever done.
• 02:55 We're literally going to these different destinations where
• 02:58 these atrocities took place.
• 02:59 We are literally going to be working there.
• 03:02 We're going to be working with the groups, highlighting the
• 03:04 people and organizations that are blessing Israel.
• 03:06 If you've ever asked the question, "How can I be a part?
• 03:09 Who can I bless that's going to help Israel?"
• 03:11 We're going to show you those people, in this series, so that
• 03:14 you can be a part of changing this nation for the good.
• 03:18 Caleb: We made it!
• 03:22 Ben Gurion Airport!
• 03:25 Caleb: As you know, you know, last time, when we were trying
• 03:28 to get out of Israel, it was a very difficult situation.
• 03:31 Joshua: But God bless Congressman Corey Mills from
• 03:33 Florida, my same age buddy, he came in with his team looking to
• 03:39 extract us, but in addition, 45 total Americans that he had not
• 03:44 planned on extracting, simply because they needed help.
• 03:47 He came in, took us through Jordan on his own dime, put us
• 03:50 up in the nicest hotel in town, ensured with the security that
• 03:53 we got to our flights, that we got home, because of
• 03:56 his efforts.
• 03:58 But we're back again, and we're ready to tell the story of this
• 04:01 country being rebuilt.
• 04:03 I'm so excited to be here.
• 04:08 Caleb: Very different from last time we walked down this
• 04:10 passageway, they had a great mural of all the heroes of
• 04:13 Israel on the wall.
• 04:15 This time, on the floor, there are signs to all those who are
• 04:19 still captive in Gaza, all those who have not returned.
• 04:23 The sign says, "Bring him home, now."
• 04:25 "Bring her home, now."
• 04:27 It's very sad.
• 04:44 Caleb: Back in April 2024, full-scale war nearly broke out
• 04:48 with Iran.
• 04:50 If you saw on the news, they were, for the first time,
• 04:53 directly assaulting Israel with over 300 plus drones, ballistic
• 04:57 missiles, cruise missiles, it was crazy.
• 05:00 It looked like a fireworks show.
• 05:03 Thankfully, God intervened on Israel's behalf, along with
• 05:07 their allies.
• 05:08 God supernaturally--99% of those missiles were taken out.
• 05:11 I mean that was unheard of, even for the technology that
• 05:13 was used.
• 05:14 God protected his people and no one died, no one perished.
• 05:20 But since then, everybody's been on edge.
• 05:22 Joshua: Normally, we stay in Jerusalem, but this time,
• 05:24 because of everything that's been going on, the places that
• 05:25 we need to go to, we're staying in Ashdod, which is just south
• 05:28 of Tel Aviv.
• 05:29 We're still gonna be going to Judea, Samaria, and hopefully
• 05:32 over to the Gaza Strip, depending on if we can get in.
• 05:36 The security has been tough.
• 05:37 We hope we made a few contacts that's gonna help us
• 05:38 get through.
• 05:40 Caleb: And so, originally, when the Holy Spirit directed us with
• 05:41 this series, he gave us a verse that I would say is a theme for
• 05:46 rebuilding the ruined cities, and I don't think there's any
• 05:49 greater time now than to read this very important verse, Amos
• 05:53 9:13-15 says, "'The days are coming,' declares the Lord,
• 05:57 'when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the
• 06:01 planter by the one who's treading grapes.
• 06:03 New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from
• 06:05 the hills.
• 06:07 I will bring my people Israel back from exile.
• 06:09 They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
• 06:12 They will plant vineyards and drink their wine.
• 06:14 They will make gardens and eat their fruit.
• 06:16 I will plant Israel in their land.
• 06:18 Never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,'
• 06:21 says the Lord, your God," amen.
• 06:25 Caleb: Well, we finally made it.
• 06:27 Man, that was over 24 hours of travel.
• 06:29 Joshua: It's a good amount of travel.
• 06:30 Caleb: Yes.
• 06:32 Joshua: Some people would go 30-minute car rides, 24-hours,
• 06:33 very similar.
• 06:35 Caleb: But here we are, at Ashdod.
• 06:36 You can see the beach behind us.
• 06:37 It is sunset, and while we're here during this trip, it's
• 06:41 gonna be Israel's Independence Day.
• 06:43 You may see celebrations going on during this--the filming of
• 06:47 this process, but it's part of that story of the rebirth of
• 06:50 Israel and the nation surviving after all the attempts to
• 06:53 annihilate it, throughout history.
• 06:55 Joshua: So it's gonna be a pretty good week!
• 06:57 Caleb: Yeah.
• 06:58 Joshua: I'm kind of tired, so we're gonna go, you know, clean
• 07:00 off and take a break because in the morning, we start early.
• 07:02 Caleb: Big day.
• 07:14 Joshua: We are standing in the land of--
• 07:17 Israel Hanna: Israel.
• 07:18 Joshua: With--
• 07:20 Israel: Israel.
• 07:21 Joshua: It's a double entendre! What's it mean?
• 07:22 We got two Israels.
• 07:24 Two Israels are always better than one.
• 07:25 He carries God's presence everywhere he goes.
• 07:26 He's like a magnet for people.
• 07:28 We can literally walk into a city street and then the first
• 07:30 question asked on set is, "Where's Israel?"
• 07:33 And that's because the Holy Spirit has already led him to
• 07:35 speak to somebody, and people open up like that.
• 07:37 Why wouldn't you want this man on every mission you go on?
• 07:40 Caleb: Josh and I, last time, we had so many people coming up to
• 07:43 us while we're filming, needing to be prayed for, and we love to
• 07:46 do that, but we just have a short time in this land to get
• 07:49 everything done, and that's what you're here for, right?
• 07:51 Israel: I love it, it seems to be my gift, for some reason, and
• 07:54 people not only gravitate towards me, but I run
• 07:57 after them.
• 07:58 Joshua: So throughout this series, we want to bring you
• 08:00 some updates of the people that Israel has talked to so that you
• 08:04 can be encouraged by the fact that, as a ministry, we are here
• 08:07 witnessing to the Jewish people, on behalf of Yeshua, which is a
• 08:10 large part of why we're here.
• 08:12 Caleb: Amen.
• 08:13 Israel: I like the fact that "Our Jewish Roots" is making
• 08:15 evangelism a priority in their work, and it's necessary for us
• 08:20 to continue to reach out to the lost, and tell them, and speak
• 08:23 to them about their Savior, Yeshua Hamashiach.
• 08:28 Caleb: We are on our way to Sderot.
• 08:30 With a population of 39,000, they were one of the first to be
• 08:33 invaded on October 7.
• 08:35 Fifty citizens were killed, but thanks to their constant
• 08:38 emergency response that they had prepared, more escaped, and
• 08:44 Hamas did take over that city for the time being,
• 08:46 several days.
• 08:48 It took a while to clear them out.
• 08:49 Joshua: With the majority of the residents fleeing south and
• 08:51 having lived in hotels for months now, they're just
• 08:54 starting to make their way back to the city, to go through the
• 08:56 ruins, and begin to rebuild.
• 08:58 Now, I visited this city some 15 years ago.
• 09:02 I remember being taken to the police station, where they
• 09:04 showed the shrapnel of missiles and things that have been lobbed
• 09:07 over on a daily basis.
• 09:10 There were thousands and thousands of missiles that have
• 09:13 been shot over a period of just a couple of months.
• 09:16 I also remember crossing over the border in Gaza, crazy things
• 09:19 that happened on that part of the trip.
• 09:21 We're going there now.
• 09:29 Caleb: The sign says, "Welcome to Sderot."
• 09:32 For decades, this was known as the most heavily bombed city on
• 09:36 the planet.
• 09:37 They had a problem with Hamas in the Gaza Strip daily lobbying
• 09:40 rockets over the border, just like a schoolyard bully just
• 09:43 constantly picking and needling and picking.
• 09:45 Obviously, the situation has changed since then.
• 09:48 Joshua: From the very beginning of Scripture, we see God's heart
• 09:52 of redemption and restoration for those that have been broken,
• 09:56 rejected, harmed, hurt.
• 09:58 We see, even right after Adam and Eve of sin in Genesis 3,
• 10:03 that God steps in and he foretells of a future, ultimate
• 10:06 plan of redemption for mankind, and that messianic prophecy is
• 10:09 alive and well today.
• 10:11 Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between you and the
• 10:15 woman, and between your seed and her seed.
• 10:17 He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
• 10:22 Caleb: He, Yeshua, certainly crushed the serpent's head,
• 10:25 Satan, upon his resurrection.
• 10:27 But Revelation 12 gives that great reveal that the woman,
• 10:32 Israel, would give birth to a male child, Messiak, Messiah,
• 10:36 Yeshua, and that male child would bring salvation to the
• 10:40 whole world, and restoration to the house of Israel.
• 10:43 Obviously, now we have that opportunity to receive Yeshua as
• 10:47 our salvation, we can make that choice.
• 10:49 But it won't be till the end, after the Tribulation, that he
• 10:54 will save the whole house of Israel.
• 11:00 Caleb: This field may look empty, see all these wires that
• 11:04 are growing up out of the ground?
• 11:06 That's because there used to be a building here.
• 11:09 This was a police station, before October 7.
• 11:13 The Hamas overtook the garrison of police officers and civilians
• 11:16 that were held up inside this facility and murdered them all.
• 11:22 Eventually, the IDF arrived to take back Sderot, they couldn't
• 11:25 eliminate the terrorists in the police station and save the
• 11:28 building itself.
• 11:30 So they used bulldozers to demolish the station and kill
• 11:34 the remaining gunmen inside.
• 11:36 You see reefs hanging around, there are candles where people
• 11:39 have lit memorials.
• 11:41 They say they're going to build an actual memorial here to the
• 11:44 lives lost in Sderot.
• 11:46 Here's an image of what they're gonna do with this facility,
• 11:50 this beautiful memorial to the lives that were lost.
• 11:55 Here's another memorial, images of individuals who have been
• 11:59 taken in the past, who still have not been returned from
• 12:02 captivity in Gaza.
• 12:04 And as of recording this video, there are many that we still
• 12:07 don't know if they're alive, they're going to be released, or
• 12:11 make it back.
• 12:13 Joshua: But you can see that from day one, Satan had it out
• 12:16 for God's people.
• 12:17 Yes, the woman would become the Jewish people from which the
• 12:20 Messiah would come.
• 12:21 And even though, technically, the first Hebrews would come
• 12:24 from Abraham, Satan had this inkling, because of a prophecy
• 12:27 in Genesis 3:15, that there would be a genetic line that
• 12:30 would come that he would have to sabotage, because that genetic
• 12:34 line would stomp out the serpent's head.
• 12:37 Caleb: So he wastes no time, this devil, in destroying the
• 12:41 genetics of humanity.
• 12:43 You read in Genesis 6 of the "benei ha elohim," these angelic
• 12:46 sons of God who came down and mated with the daughters of
• 12:49 women and created a hybrid race of giants called "Nephilim."
• 12:53 They perverted the genetics of mankind and filled the earth
• 12:56 with violence and perversion and sin, so much so that God had
• 13:00 to wipe out all of humanity, destroy all the earth with
• 13:04 a flood.
• 13:05 However, Noah and his family were of pure genetic line.
• 13:09 He was the only one that was found righteous before God, and
• 13:12 that's why it takes us to this first "rebuilding the ruined
• 13:15 cities" moment that, out of this destruction and judgment that
• 13:18 hit the earth, God could bring about something beautiful.
• 13:22 Let's read about that passage in Genesis 9, of the Noahic
• 13:26 Covenant, that covenant that God made with the people of the
• 13:31 world, and with the animals.
• 13:33 Genesis 9:8 through 13, "Then God said to Noah and to his sons
• 13:38 with him: 'I now establish my covenant with you and with your
• 13:41 descendants, after you and with every living creature that was
• 13:44 with you, the birds, the livestock, and all the wild
• 13:47 animals, all those that came out of the ark with you, every
• 13:50 living creature on earth...
• 13:51 Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of
• 13:54 the flood.
• 13:55 Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.'
• 13:58 And God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant.
• 14:01 I've set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign
• 14:05 of a covenant between me and the earth.'"
• 14:08 Joshua: You see, the Noahic Covenant is really
• 14:10 quite incredible.
• 14:11 It's incredible for many reasons, it's unconditional.
• 14:14 That means there's absolutely nothing anybody has to do for it
• 14:17 to be met.
• 14:18 But also, that means there's nothing that anybody can do to
• 14:21 stop it.
• 14:22 It doesn't matter if you're a Nephilim, a world dictator, if
• 14:24 you're running, like, the greatest secret society on the
• 14:26 planet, nothing you can do will stop the covenant that God made
• 14:30 that says he will never, ever destroy the Earth by
• 14:33 flood again.
• 14:34 Caleb: You see this beautiful mural that was painted behind
• 14:36 us after the fact of the attack.
• 14:39 Very bottom corner, it says, "Simchat Torah," the very last
• 14:43 day of the Feast of the Sukkot, they're reading the Torah, and
• 14:46 then the tank is attacking in the middle of their reading.
• 14:49 They're focused on God, they're worshiping God, in middle
• 14:51 of celebration.
• 14:53 Let that sink in for a moment.
• 14:54 We want to remember the life that God has given us, and his
• 14:58 goodness and his love, even in the midst of this destruction.
• 15:07 Caleb: In between takes, and you may hear it while we're talking,
• 15:11 there are explosions going off in Gaza, less than a mile
• 15:14 from here.
• 15:16 Feels really dicey.
• 15:17 There goes one right now, I don't know if you could
• 15:19 hear that.
• 15:20 But the example of a flood is the premium and ultimate
• 15:25 example of destruction and judgment.
• 15:27 That the Jewish people would have to suffer persecution and
• 15:31 judgment throughout history would never be as severe as that
• 15:34 judgment that first came upon the earth.
• 15:37 But God, out of all this destruction and heartache,
• 15:41 always seeks out with his unfailing love, to the Jewish
• 15:44 people to have them return and rebuild and be restored.
• 15:49 Those are the three awesome Rs of God: to be restored for his
• 15:54 Jewish people.
• 15:56 Joshua: After the flood, God commanded Noah and his family
• 15:58 and the animals to be fruitful and multiply, repopulate
• 16:01 the earth.
• 16:03 You see, today the population of the Jewish people on the Earth
• 16:05 is dwindling.
• 16:06 After 6.5 million Jews lost in the Holocaust, and on October
• 16:10 7th, the surprise attack from Hamas killing over 1,200
• 16:14 Israelis and foreigners,
• 16:17 240, 245 taken captive, hidden in tunnels throughout Gaza.
• 16:24 In fact, these right here, beautifully ornate structures
• 16:27 that they've painted to blend in and give the sense of normality
• 16:30 here in the town of Sderot are actually bomb shelters.
• 16:33 There are loudspeakers throughout the town and when a
• 16:35 person comes on and says, "Red Alert,"
• 16:38 that's the one warning you get.
• 16:39 You have 15 seconds to get to one of these bomb shelters, and
• 16:42 then you have to stay in there for 10-minutes in hopes that you
• 16:45 come back to a home, or that the shelter itself isn't bombed.
• 16:49 Caleb: That's right, so just for you to understand the extreme
• 16:53 significance of the 1,200 that died on the day of October 7,
• 17:00 for 9/11, in America, it was a really harsh and jarring event
• 17:06 that affected the entire country because you have 295 million, I
• 17:13 believe, it was around that number 285 million citizens in
• 17:16 America, at that time.
• 17:18 So 1,200, you do the fraction, with 9.4 million Israelis, is
• 17:24 much greater significance of loss of life because nearly
• 17:30 everybody in Israel knew someone, had some connection,
• 17:33 family, to someone who was perished, died, or kidnapped
• 17:37 during that conflict.
• 17:39 Joshua: And whether or not you can hear it, inside this bomb
• 17:42 shelter, the echo, the sounds of the bombs and the missiles
• 17:45 are amplified.
• 17:46 That's one of the things I noted when Caleb was just talking, not
• 17:48 in the script, but I can't imagine being in here when you
• 17:52 know that your home, or your family's home, or your friend's
• 17:55 home may be the target of those missiles.
• 18:04 Caleb: We're here in the courtyard of a massive
• 18:07 school complex.
• 18:08 All around us, you see these buildings.
• 18:11 Little did you know that they're reinforced with concrete with
• 18:14 steel coverings.
• 18:16 After October 7 attack, they needed a place in the city to
• 18:21 protect people during an attack.
• 18:23 Massive amounts of people at a time, so they converted the
• 18:25 school to that facility.
• 18:27 You have this sign right here.
• 18:28 That says, "Time is short, love is multiplied."
• 18:33 They're still trying to think positively, even in the midst of
• 18:36 the darkness, even in the midst of destruction, that good can
• 18:40 still overcome evil
• 18:42 and triumph, no matter the situation.
• 18:45 Joshua: After Yeshua was baptized by his cousin John, he
• 18:48 went into the wilderness, into the desert, for 40 days.
• 18:52 He fasted, and prayed, and during this time of human
• 18:55 weakness and exhaustion, Luke 4 chronicles how Satan came to
• 18:58 tempt him.
• 19:00 But it says that Yeshua overcame Satan by the very Word of God.
• 19:06 Because as John 1 declares, Yeshua is the Word of God.
• 19:09 Caleb: And so, Yeshua, filled with the "ruach ha-kodesh," the
• 19:13 Holy Spirit, immediately went to return to his hometown
• 19:16 of Nazareth.
• 19:18 And he went into the synagogue on Shabbat.
• 19:20 You should know this story by now because we rehearsed it
• 19:23 during our series "Road Map to Armageddon," and we went to the
• 19:27 synagogue church in Nazareth, Yeshua told us to, the Holy
• 19:30 Spirit told us to.
• 19:31 He said it was necessary that we go and rehearse that same
• 19:34 Scripture that Yeshua spoke in Isaiah 61, that reminder of his
• 19:40 Messianic covenant, and even though it wasn't completely
• 19:44 fulfilled with the restoration of all mankind, he still read
• 19:48 that and people rejected him.
• 19:50 Well, we feel that it's time for Josh to read the totality of
• 19:53 that Scripture today, the totality that Yeshua couldn't
• 19:56 finish on that day, because it has great implications for the
• 20:00 time now and for the future of the whole house of Israel.
• 20:04 Joshua: Isaiah 61:1-3.
• 20:07 "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has
• 20:11 anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; he has sent
• 20:15 me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
• 20:18 captives, the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
• 20:22 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of
• 20:25 vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those
• 20:30 who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy
• 20:35 for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
• 20:38 heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness,
• 20:41 the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified."
• 20:48 Joshua: You're not too far to come back home.
• 20:52 I know that every child has not had an ideal raising, but many
• 20:58 grow up with a mother and a father who loved them,
• 21:00 very dearly.
• 21:01 And in this process of them being raised, the family is
• 21:05 focused on the very best for their life.
• 21:08 They're given love, they're given attention, they're given
• 21:12 all of the belief that they have a future for themselves.
• 21:17 For some reason, as time goes on and boys and girls start to
• 21:21 listen to their peers and their friends, they stop listening to
• 21:24 their parents and those who give them good advice, and they start
• 21:27 to become products of mistakes and consequences.
• 21:32 And at some point, life shifts from the ideal of who you could
• 21:37 be, and people start identifying themselves with the things that
• 21:41 they've done negatively.
• 21:44 There's a term that's thrown around a lot today, and it's
• 21:46 positive in pop culture, the idea of being a survivor.
• 21:49 "I survived cancer, I survived this, I survived that."
• 21:53 There's nothing wrong with surviving, the strength of
• 21:55 surviving is incredible.
• 21:57 But the problem with identifying yourself solely as a survivor is
• 22:01 you're limiting the scope of your entire existence to simply
• 22:05 having defeated one obstacle.
• 22:07 That your life existed only to overcome this one adversity.
• 22:11 When the Bible says that God meticulously crafted who you are
• 22:16 and who you would be before the foundations of this earth, but
• 22:20 as we've gone along instead of accepting the hours and hours
• 22:24 that our parents sacrifice to take us from babies and keep us
• 22:28 alive as we were fully dependent on them, to paying to provide
• 22:32 for our belongings and our dwelling.
• 22:34 We've stopped listening to the value that the Word says
• 22:38 about us.
• 22:39 And we've only listened to the lies of the mistakes that
• 22:43 we've made.
• 22:44 What would happen differently in your life if you started to
• 22:46 accept the truth?
• 22:47 If you really believe for a moment that you were the
• 22:49 righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and today put everything
• 22:53 aside, the fear, the guilt, the shame that holds you in bondage
• 22:59 to the mistakes that you've made, and accepted the identity
• 23:03 of your Father who is still waiting for you to come home
• 23:07 with his arms open as wide as they were the second you left.
• 23:12 Because just like the parable of the prodigal son, when you're
• 23:14 around the corner, Dad's still waiting there for you with open
• 23:18 arms to embrace you and to love you and to give you that future
• 23:21 destiny that you ran from.
• 23:25 Many years ago, when my son was a few months old, we were
• 23:29 traveling around, we didn't have a place to live, me and my wife,
• 23:33 we wanted to find where we're gonna go, and so in essence, we
• 23:35 were homeless for several months, trying to decide where
• 23:37 to go.
• 23:38 One night we were in Wilmington, North Carolina, in this little
• 23:42 motel, not hotel, which means it was exposed to the outside, and
• 23:45 finally got my son to sleep inside, and I was out on this
• 23:48 tiny, little balcony and I was just sitting there.
• 23:51 I had a dinner napkin, and all of a sudden God started to talk
• 23:54 to me directly.
• 23:56 And in literally less than five minutes's time, he said these
• 23:59 exact words that I wrote down, and as I was preparing for
• 24:02 today, he told me specifically to share this.
• 24:03 I've never shared this publicly.
• 24:06 But this poem, these words, are God speaking directly to you.
• 24:12 It says, "For in a day you shall see all that in a lifetime
• 24:17 escapes you.
• 24:18 In that moment, love's pure light will shine upon you,
• 24:21 quenching the darkness of shame, of pain, of bondage.
• 24:26 My child, you are my heartbeat.
• 24:30 You are my all.
• 24:31 If it were not so, I would not have fled for you.
• 24:35 Yet my love is not a single act of time has passed, and my heart
• 24:39 is not a former movement.
• 24:40 For I pine for you, my love.
• 24:43 I lay in wait for the day of our return.
• 24:46 Your light illuminates my eyes.
• 24:48 Even as my love illuminates your heart.
• 24:51 For these moments in time are not a defining epilogue, for
• 24:55 your image was crafted upon my heart before time began.
• 25:00 Let not the deceptions of this age spin a web of deceit in
• 25:03 which you find your calling.
• 25:05 For you are not to be changed, but called to perform
• 25:08 my changing.
• 25:09 You are as I have called you.
• 25:11 You will as I have made you.
• 25:14 Now live, as I have paid for you to be free."
• 25:20 Joshua: What a journey, what a return.
• 25:23 Many of you, well, they may not know that we have to film these
• 25:26 episodes well in advance, but even since we returned from
• 25:28 Israel, the fighting has not let up.
• 25:31 Maybe just a little at times, but it's intensified, especially
• 25:34 if you're watching the news today.
• 25:36 As we mentioned, all of our crew didn't want to return with us.
• 25:39 Their families were concerned, and we understand that concern.
• 25:41 Our families didn't want us to return into the war zone that we
• 25:44 escaped from in October of 2023.
• 25:46 Caleb: Yeah, my own 9-year-old daughter's teachers called me in
• 25:50 for a parent-teacher meeting two weeks before my departure.
• 25:53 Every one of my kiddo's schools knows what we do and they knew
• 25:57 that we were about to return for Israel, and these wonderful
• 25:59 teachers were worried about my daughter because her grades were
• 26:02 dropping, she was getting emotional in class, and they
• 26:05 attribute to our return to the Holy Land.
• 26:08 Thankfully, they understood the importance of this ministry and
• 26:10 joined with me in prayer and daily encouragement for
• 26:12 my daughter.
• 26:13 So just before I left for Israel, my daughter gave me
• 26:16 these two pictures, and I posted them in my hotel room in Ashdod.
• 26:22 Here is the first one, it's Psalms 27:3 says, "Though an
• 26:25 army besiege me, my heart will not fear.
• 26:28 The war breaks out against me, even then I will be confident."
• 26:33 Here this other picture my daughter said, "Be confident and
• 26:36 brave when you go to Israel, Dad."
• 26:41 I mean, that brought me to tears, that she would send me
• 26:44 out in faith, believing and trusting in God, just like I
• 26:47 taught her for years, that God would protect us when we
• 26:50 were out.
• 26:51 Joshua: We want to thank you for supporting this ministry, your
• 26:53 ministry, not just ours.
• 26:55 Financially, and with your prayers, you have made this
• 26:57 ministry happen, year after year, after year.
• 27:00 You send us out and you cover us in prayer, and while we're out,
• 27:04 we promise you that we don't waste a second in our labor to
• 27:07 tell the lost about Yeshua.
• 27:09 Caleb: That's right.
• 27:10 Joshua: Please continue to give as we help the rebuilding of
• 27:12 a nation.
• 27:13 Please check out on social media because we have additional
• 27:15 programming that airs there.
• 27:17 Bible lessons, a monthly news letter, additional content, all
• 27:20 of these things are available for you online to see and
• 27:23 understand, to know what's going on and not have the excuse that
• 27:26 you were unaware.
• 27:27 Caleb: That's right, guys.
• 27:28 Watch us next week as we continue to "Rebuild the Ruined
• 27:30 Cities" and as you go, "Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim."
• 27:34 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:37 male announcer: Our offer on this program, "The Covenants of
• 27:40 God," eight 30-minute programs on two DVDs.
• 27:44 Zola Levitt helps us understand God's covenants with man,
• 27:49 enriching our faith and expanding our knowledge of the
• 27:52 Great Creator we're privileged to call "Father."
• 27:56 Ask for "The Covenants of God" DVDs.
• 28:00 female: We, by this, kind of understood that safety is not
• 28:05 necessarily something that we always have.
• 28:08 That's the reality of things.
• 28:10 male: This was a war zone.
• 28:11 Suddenly, we get a phone call from [inaudible]
• 28:13 to send a volunteer.
• 28:15 female: Every time I came, I felt safe.
• 28:16 And I figured, you know what, it's not really any different.
• 28:19 male: Even if something happens, this is God's will, right?
• 28:22 female: To participate in something that is meaningful and
• 28:24 important to you.
• 28:26 male: This is good, send us a message, for change.