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Caption transcript for Rebuilding the Ruined Cities: “The Conquest” (4/12)

• 00:02 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Caleb Colson: The conquest
• 00:18 of Canaan is one of the most pivotal moments in the Tanakh.
• 00:21 This is the reason the children of Israel can rightly claim
• 00:24 their lineage to the land they are living in today.
• 00:27 ♪♪♪
• 00:39 Joshua Colson: It's not an accident that our parents named
• 00:41 us Joshua and Caleb, this was a prophetic declaration by God of
• 00:45 who we were meant to emulate and who we represented.
• 00:48 We were destined to be the only two spies with a good report,
• 00:52 those who walked in faith and possessed the land of promise.
• 00:56 ♪♪♪
• 01:06 ♪♪♪
• 01:16 Caleb: We finally made it here quite off the beaten path.
• 01:20 Took us a bit of a drive.
• 01:21 We're at Tel Gezer.
• 01:23 This was one of the largest tels in the ancient world.
• 01:26 A tel is like a manmade hill of sorts with layers of
• 01:30 civilization, one built on top of the other, like 21 to be in
• 01:34 fact here.
• 01:36 A giant Canaanite metropolis back in the day that was the
• 01:40 center of trade for all the area, because the light on the
• 01:42 Via Maris highway which went through here, and therefore it
• 01:45 controlled who got what and what got who.
• 01:48 So, it was very wealthy, very prosperous.
• 01:50 Interesting, back during the conquest of Canaan, Joshua came
• 01:53 here, and at first he had to lay siege to Tel Lachish.
• 01:58 We're gonna talk about Tel Lachish next week, but as he was
• 02:02 sieging there, the king of Gezer came from here and attacked the
• 02:06 Israelites, guess what?
• 02:07 They were defeated, they were wiped out, but the Israelites
• 02:10 never truly succeeded in conquering this city.
• 02:12 In fact, even after the conquest of Canaan was settled, each of
• 02:16 the tribes were given a designated plot of territory.
• 02:19 Ephraim was given this territory, and they were
• 02:21 supposed to settle it and get rid of all the squatters.
• 02:23 They didn't succeed in that fact, as Judges tells us, so
• 02:26 instead they made the people of Gezer their servants, if
• 02:30 you will.
• 02:31 Joshua: It's really cool because archaeologists found these
• 02:33 documents that dated back to 1400 B.C.
• 02:36 These documents had a fancy name to them, they're the
• 02:40 Amarna letters.
• 02:42 Caleb: Amarna letters, yeah.
• 02:44 Joshua: These are really cool because these were basically the
• 02:46 Canaanites, the leaders writing over to Egypt saying, hey,
• 02:49 we need your help.
• 02:50 We got these invaders, they're called, like, Haribo or Habirus,
• 02:54 yeah, but basically the word for Hebrews, that's the word that
• 02:57 they used to call it to try to explain they needed help.
• 03:00 Now you see, the Canaanites had already been under the rule of
• 03:04 the Egyptians because they already conquered before at
• 03:05 Gezer, and because of that, that's why they're writing to
• 03:08 him going, what are we going to do?
• 03:09 We need help from these guys, and so?
• 03:11 Caleb: It verifies the Bible story.
• 03:12 Joshua: It verifies the Bible story because of it.
• 03:15 Caleb: So, join us as we ascend Tel Gezer.
• 03:21 Joshua: Does ascent mean climb?
• 03:23 Is there an escalator or a moving sidewalk?
• 03:25 Caleb: Nope, it's time for exercise.
• 03:26 Joshua: I don't want exercise.
• 03:28 Okay, exercise is what I wanted.
• 03:29 ♪♪♪
• 03:34 Caleb: Exodus 3:7 through 8, "And the Lord said, 'I have
• 03:37 surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and
• 03:40 have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know
• 03:44 their sorrows.
• 03:46 So I've come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
• 03:48 Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and
• 03:51 large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the
• 03:55 place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites, and
• 03:58 the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.'"
• 04:03 Joshua: Just because my brother says we're supposed to do it
• 04:06 doesn't mean he's right.
• 04:08 This sign clearly says don't walk up this hill, have a driver
• 04:12 bring you.
• 04:17 Caleb: Well, the Israelites should have known that they
• 04:18 would be slaves in Egypt for 400 years.
• 04:21 God actually laid out the entire game plan to
• 04:24 Abraham prophetically.
• 04:26 We get that in Genesis 15.
• 04:28 He said that the sins of the Amorites haven't reached full
• 04:31 measure, they would go into that land and they would be
• 04:33 strangers there.
• 04:35 Well, at first they were blessed by the pharaoh, welcomed with
• 04:38 open arms because Joseph was the second highest ruler
• 04:41 in the kingdom.
• 04:42 They settled in the land of Goshen and they multiplied and
• 04:45 became very fruitful.
• 04:46 But as you know, this became a threat with later pharaohs in
• 04:50 Egypt, so much so that they thought of ways to annihilate
• 04:54 and decrease the population of those Hebrews so that they could
• 04:58 have full control, and that, of course, is where you get that
• 05:02 most popular story of baby Moses and how he survived the massacre
• 05:06 of the innocent children by Pharaoh.
• 05:08 Joshua: Slavery is no small thing to balk at.
• 05:11 Taking anybody captive against their will, holding them in any
• 05:14 way, is a horrendous thing, and the enemy loves to do just that.
• 05:18 He loves to take the things that you cherish, the ones that you
• 05:21 cherish, hold them hostage, dangle them in front of you,
• 05:23 dangle them in front of God to peer straight to his heart.
• 05:26 When you look at what happened on October 7th with Hamas, Hamas
• 05:29 came in and did just that.
• 05:31 They didn't come in just to murder and to kill, but they
• 05:33 came in to take hostage and to make slaves of the Jewish people
• 05:36 to cause even more pain.
• 05:41 Isaiah 49:8 through 9, "Thus says Adonai, 'In a time of favor
• 05:46 I will answer you.
• 05:47 In a day of salvation I will help you.
• 05:49 I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to
• 05:52 restore the land, to make them possess its desolate
• 05:55 inheritances, saying to the prisoners, 'Come out,' to those
• 05:59 in darkness, 'Be free.'"
• 06:03 Caleb: This is the ancient Canaanite portion of Tel Gezer,
• 06:07 a tower that the guards would be situated on.
• 06:12 There's gates over here, but when Moses led the children
• 06:17 of Israel out of Egypt, he wouldn't actually take them
• 06:20 all the way here.
• 06:21 They came out of Egypt with God's strong right hand, with
• 06:24 miracles, signs, and wonders, and because of Moses's sin,
• 06:28 he had to pass the baton to one, Yehoshua, Joshua.
• 06:32 He was a successor.
• 06:34 Now, Joshua and Caleb, Kalev, Caleb was the leader of the
• 06:39 tribe of Judah, would be the oldest and most honored of the
• 06:42 Israelites to lead them into the Promised Land.
• 06:44 That's because everybody else died for their rebellion against
• 06:47 God, and they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.
• 06:51 But when they would come into this new territory of the
• 06:54 Promised Land, they still dealt with rebellions within their own
• 06:59 people, their own sphere of influence.
• 07:01 It's a very hard thing to be a Joshua and a Caleb.
• 07:04 They're called to be two individuals who stand against
• 07:08 the tide, to stand for righteousness when all others
• 07:12 fall behind in fear.
• 07:13 I kind of like those odds, you know, you and me against
• 07:16 the world.
• 07:17 Joshua: Never would have guessed that, brother, never would have
• 07:18 guessed that about you.
• 07:20 Here's the deal, guys, God would be the one who would have to
• 07:22 gift wrap the Promised Land to the Israelites, but all he
• 07:26 required out of them to get this free gift was for them to
• 07:30 believe by faith.
• 07:32 Sometimes it's really hard to believe by faith, because
• 07:34 basically you have to believe in something you can't see.
• 07:37 That is the definition of faith and it can be very hard to have
• 07:40 faith when things seem hopeless.
• 07:42 You see, God is in the business of redeeming the hopeless.
• 07:45 He's in the business of coming to those in a hopeless
• 07:48 situation, giving them hope, restoring them, pulling them out
• 07:51 of the broken places and erasing those memories of mourning and
• 07:54 suffering that they've been through.
• 07:56 Don't think for a second that our God has in any way forgotten
• 07:59 about those prisoners taken to Gaza, because he hasn't.
• 08:03 ♪♪♪
• 08:06 Caleb: Isaiah 49:14 through 17, "But Zion said, 'Adonai has
• 08:11 forsaken me, Adonai has forgotten me.'
• 08:14 Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for
• 08:18 a child of her womb?
• 08:20 Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
• 08:24 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
• 08:28 Your walls are continually before me.
• 08:30 Your children will come quickly.
• 08:32 Your destroyers and devastators will go away from you."
• 08:37 Caleb: This is referred to as the monolith temples.
• 08:40 These are actually megalith stones, standing stones.
• 08:44 This was a high place for the Canaanites.
• 08:47 There's a reason that God waited 400 years until the Israelites
• 08:51 could go into the Promised Land.
• 08:52 He said the sins of the Amorites have not reached full measure.
• 08:56 Well, first an archaeologists discovered the site, they
• 08:58 thought that these standing stones commemorated peace
• 09:01 treaties, or, you know, they're in honor of different kingdoms
• 09:05 and different rulers, then after they started to dig around, they
• 09:09 found these jars, and in these jars were
• 09:13 less-than-weak-year-old infants that had been sacrificed.
• 09:16 There was burnt marks on them.
• 09:18 They were burned in altars around here, and then they
• 09:21 discovered that this was most probably the location where
• 09:24 blood libations were poured out.
• 09:26 Thus, when God told the Israelites to come into the
• 09:28 Promised Land, he said one of the sins of the Amorites was
• 09:31 sacrificing their children to Moloch.
• 09:34 The blood was poured out here.
• 09:38 Joshua: Joshua 1:2 through 5, "Now then, you and all these
• 09:42 people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land that
• 09:45 I'm about to give to them, to the Israelites.
• 09:47 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I
• 09:50 promised Moses.
• 09:51 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from
• 09:55 the great river, through Euphrates, all the Hittite
• 09:58 country to the Mediterranean Sea in the West.
• 10:01 No one will be able to stand against you all the days
• 10:04 of your life."
• 10:05 ♪♪♪
• 10:10 Caleb: Well, we did it.
• 10:13 We went down that 40-meter shaft tunnel.
• 10:15 This is the ancient waterworks system, fresh water,
• 10:19 the very bottom.
• 10:20 Could not convince our crew to come down here, could we?
• 10:26 It's totally okay, we still love you.
• 10:28 Joshua: We could not.
• 10:32 This territory, it's a lot larger than the territory that
• 10:36 God promised the Israelites and they have today currently.
• 10:39 For seven years, Joshua leads campaigns against the enemy,
• 10:43 taking the land, until he finally tasks the tribes with
• 10:47 going in, picking out their areas, and getting all the
• 10:51 squatters out, but guess what?
• 10:54 They didn't get all the squatters out.
• 10:55 Caleb led the tribe of Judah to seize the most land, sit on
• 11:00 three giant kings, three giant lands, and then his half-brother
• 11:04 Othniel took on the fourth, successfully I might add.
• 11:09 Caleb: That's right, now Hebron was Caleb's gift from God for
• 11:15 his faithfulness when he walked through the land and he said I
• 11:18 can take those Nephilim on, I will obey the Word of the Lord.
• 11:21 It's called [speaking Hebrew]
• 11:22 back then, and as we mentioned, it's one of three giant cities.
• 11:25 Now, Caleb walked by faith and therefore he was rewarded with
• 11:30 that territory.
• 11:31 It was then an even larger territory of Judah.
• 11:35 Now, it's kind of sad today, that territory is within what's
• 11:39 called the West Bank, occupied or contested territory.
• 11:43 This is biblical Judea and Samaria.
• 11:46 This is God's land that he gave to the Jewish people, but you
• 11:49 can find it interesting that Satan does not want the children
• 11:52 of God to have a land that was gifted by God, especially the
• 11:56 territory of Judah, because that's literally the inheritance
• 12:00 of Mashiach Yeshua, the line of the tribe of Judah.
• 12:04 But don't worry, one day this territory will be given back to
• 12:08 God's people, but right now there's so much confusion and
• 12:12 there's so much contest.
• 12:14 Joshua: Even the bats are contesting us right now.
• 12:16 I know you all were missing us sweating on camera, so for all
• 12:19 of you guys, here's the nostalgia, we're back
• 12:21 again, whew.
• 12:24 There's a lot of guano on the handrail.
• 12:30 That's guano, because the only way to use a handrail is to
• 12:35 touch it.
• 12:38 Isaiah 49:22 through 23, "Thus says Adonai Elohim, 'Look,
• 12:43 I will lift My hand to the nations and raise My banner to
• 12:46 the peoples.
• 12:47 They will bring your sons on their chests and carry your
• 12:49 daughters on their shoulders.
• 12:51 Kings will be your guardians, their princesses your nurses.
• 12:53 They will bow down to you with their face to the ground and
• 12:56 lick the dust off your feet.
• 12:59 Then you will know that I am Adonai.
• 13:01 Those hoping in Me will not be ashamed.'"
• 13:04 Joshua: Now, you may be watching this and saying, Josh,
• 13:06 you are out of shape, it's only 40 meters down.
• 13:11 Remember, that's 40 meters down after already going 120 up.
• 13:16 Dog leg lifting up again.
• 13:18 Add it all together and it still equals a lot of meters.
• 13:23 ♪♪♪
• 13:30 Joshua: According to the laws of war and conquest, Israel took
• 13:32 possession of Canaan as their kingdom territory.
• 13:36 This began in 1405 B.C.
• 13:38 when they first crossed the Jordan River, but they never
• 13:40 fully got all of the land that God promised them.
• 13:43 However, King David and Solomon got the closest.
• 13:46 Caleb: Now, there are other methods in which the Jewish
• 13:50 history can claim ownership to the land of Canaan.
• 13:53 Another is by covenant.
• 13:55 Last week, we spoke about the Abrahamic Covenant that God made
• 13:58 to Abram, that it was an eternal covenant that lasted for all the
• 14:03 land, all of his children forever, every one who had come
• 14:07 from Abraham's seed, the Hebrew people, and it was made by God.
• 14:12 So, some people may say, well, these Jewish people claim that
• 14:16 their God who I've never met, gift wrapped to this land of the
• 14:19 Promised Land to the Jews, how can we trust that?
• 14:21 Because the Muslims claim that Allah gift wrapped this land
• 14:25 to the Muslim people.
• 14:27 Well, first of all, we gotta look at some history behind
• 14:29 that, because the Jewish history, we have verifiable
• 14:32 scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls that date back further than
• 14:35 anything the Muslims have to claim on this land.
• 14:38 You know, Muhammad didn't come around until around 600 A.D.,
• 14:42 and in that period is when he got the Quran.
• 14:45 He wrote up all this, you know, history that was alternate from
• 14:49 the true history, and he had to pick a god, a pantheon--from the
• 14:53 pantheon of gods that the Arab people worshiped in order for
• 14:57 him to start this new religion, and everybody follow him.
• 15:00 He picked the goddess Allah from the Arabian pantheon of many
• 15:05 numerable gods.
• 15:06 They had to change it from female to male, but truly it was
• 15:11 kind of interesting that he did pick Allah, because it is the
• 15:14 same god or goddess going all the way back to the Babylonian
• 15:18 times, Ishtar.
• 15:20 She was the goddess of war, of blood, of sexuality, of all
• 15:24 these things, but she was a moon goddess, which is why he chose
• 15:28 the symbol of the moon by which to conquer and to control.
• 15:33 But truly, this land belongs to the Jewish people and that's
• 15:36 a covenant that we have with God, and that's a covenant that
• 15:40 has stood firm throughout all time, and that's why the Jews
• 15:43 now live in the land of promise uncontested by the laws
• 15:48 of our God.
• 15:49 ♪♪♪
• 15:56 Caleb: This is the Israelite portion of the city of Gezer.
• 16:00 So, eventually we told you before that the Canaanites
• 16:03 controlled the city as being slaves to the Israelites, but
• 16:07 behind me is the city gate known as Solomon's Gate.
• 16:11 It's from the time that Solomon took occupation of the city.
• 16:14 Interesting story, he was engaged, betrothed, if you will,
• 16:19 to marry the Egyptian princess, and so the Pharaoh conquered
• 16:23 this city of Gezer and gift wrapped it as a wedding present
• 16:27 to Solomon, and that's how the Israelites came in control of
• 16:30 the city.
• 16:31 But back to those methods by which the Jews can claim
• 16:35 ownership to this land today, one is by purchase.
• 16:40 We know throughout history, going all the way back to
• 16:42 Abraham and Jacob, that they purchased parcels of this land
• 16:46 from the indigenous Canaanites here to claim as their own, and
• 16:49 then later on in history when the Jews were coming back to the
• 16:52 land, they would buy large swaths of arid desert land.
• 16:57 There would be swamps, there would be sand dunes,
• 17:02 inhospitable land from wealthy Arab landowners, and they would
• 17:06 take that, and then under their care God would bless this land
• 17:10 and it would flourish and be plentiful and provide for the
• 17:13 Jewish people.
• 17:14 Joshua: The Jewish people can claim the land of Israel
• 17:16 by accord.
• 17:18 In Britain, the League of Nations, and other nations, they
• 17:21 had been tasked with providing the Jewish people with a state,
• 17:25 but finally the UN of all people passed a resolution allowing
• 17:29 them to do so.
• 17:31 Well, when Britain's mandate had finally passed, Israel was
• 17:35 founded as a nation state for the Jewish people.
• 17:37 They declared it after many decades of all the other nations
• 17:41 trying, it had finally come to pass.
• 17:43 Caleb: It wasn't like they just came in and started occupying,
• 17:45 this was a task that the whole world decided it was necessary
• 17:49 for the Jews to own this land.
• 17:50 It wasn't a hijacking a poor Palestinian land or from the
• 17:54 poor Palestinian people, that was a lie from Satan that was
• 17:56 perpetuated over and over again and then rehearsed in the ears
• 18:00 of small children as they would grow up with this hatred in
• 18:04 their hearts and the desire to kill and murder
• 18:07 the Jewish people.
• 18:09 ♪♪♪
• 18:11 Joshua: Isaiah 49:24 through 26, "Can plunder be taken from the
• 18:15 mighty, or captives of the righteous freed?
• 18:19 For thus says Adonai, 'Yes, captives of the mighty will be
• 18:21 taken, and the prey of the tyrant will be freed.
• 18:24 For I will oppose your adversary.
• 18:26 I will save your children.
• 18:28 I will feed your oppressors their flesh.
• 18:30 They will be drunk with their blood, as with sweet wine.
• 18:33 Then all the flesh will know that I, Adonai, am your Savior
• 18:36 and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.'"
• 18:40 Caleb: You may be wondering why we've been reading the word of
• 18:44 prophecy of Isaiah 39 throughout this episode.
• 18:48 Because this prophecy has multiple fulfillments, it spans
• 18:51 multiple timelines.
• 18:53 You know, it's words were fulfilled when the exiles came
• 18:56 back from Babylon.
• 18:57 They know it was fulfilled also when the Israelites came out of
• 19:02 the Diaspora and were restored to the land of Israel on
• 19:05 May 14, 1948.
• 19:07 This is the Word of the Lord being fulfilled, but the
• 19:10 ultimate completion of Isaiah 49 is when Yeshua rules and reigns
• 19:15 from Jerusalem during the Millennium and you have peace
• 19:19 on Earth.
• 19:20 But we can use the words of this prophecy now to speak
• 19:23 prophetically, to declare the Word of the Lord over the
• 19:27 situation that's happening in Israel during war, during the
• 19:31 time that the captives may be in Gaza.
• 19:34 You need to speak those words and declare it so that good may
• 19:37 come out of these situations where enemy seeks to destroy the
• 19:41 Jewish people.
• 19:42 Joshua: By the time this episode airs, all of the hostages may
• 19:45 be freed.
• 19:47 The fate of Gaza may already be decided.
• 19:48 A war with Iran may have come and gone.
• 19:50 Hezbollah may be wiped off the face of the earth, none of us
• 19:52 know what'll happen, but we know that God has promised that he is
• 19:57 working on behalf of the Jewish people, that his commitment is
• 20:00 to restore them, to restore Israel, and God watches over his
• 20:05 word and his commitment and he will perform it.
• 20:10 ♪♪♪
• 20:17 Joshua: Some of us in life struggle with an idea that's not
• 20:21 new to me in why am I here?
• 20:24 Some people will go their whole lives and not understand why
• 20:26 they've been put on this planet, and others of us, we have felt
• 20:29 a calling on our lives since as young as we can remember.
• 20:32 That's the category that I fall into.
• 20:34 I've always known the broad strokes of what God had called
• 20:37 me to do with my life, and in that time I tried to anticipate
• 20:43 what it was that he was gonna bring me to and through.
• 20:46 As time went on, I began to travel the world at age 18,
• 20:50 going to countries all over in need in destitution, in war,
• 20:56 in famine and destruction, still wondering exactly how he was
• 21:01 going to bring to fruition the things in my life that he had
• 21:05 spoken to me, promised to me, not knowing how it was
• 21:08 gonna happen.
• 21:10 As you begin to go through life, face struggles that are
• 21:13 unexpected in the midst of your coming to the Father or in the
• 21:16 midst of you saying use me, this is what I want, God, I want your
• 21:20 will, and yet these things keep happening, it's very easy to get
• 21:23 to a hopeless state and it's very easy to give up and go on
• 21:27 your own path and just say I can't beat them so I'm gonna
• 21:30 join them or any of the different things.
• 21:31 If you ever heard anybody describe their life, they said,
• 21:33 oh, I started off like this and then I had this period of time
• 21:35 where I rebelled and--
• 21:37 Most of that is generally due because we get disappointed or
• 21:39 we get downtrodden and we don't know what to do.
• 21:42 Well, look at the stories that were told today.
• 21:45 The Israelites had had this right to this land for hundreds
• 21:49 of years, but it came with the knowledge that they were going
• 21:53 to have to fight through to get it, even though it had been
• 21:57 promised, even though it was God, the creator of all things,
• 22:02 they were gonna have to fight tooth and nail past every
• 22:06 physical visceral sense in their body that said you are in the
• 22:09 exact opposite position of owning this land to get through
• 22:13 to that point.
• 22:14 Today, you may be at a point in your life where you're on the
• 22:17 verge of giving up.
• 22:19 Maybe you feel like you already did give up and you don't try,
• 22:21 you don't care, you're living for the moment, for the day,
• 22:23 whatever pacifies you.
• 22:25 I'm looking for the next meal today, that's what makes
• 22:27 me happy.
• 22:28 I'm looking forward to my new show, another episodes coming up
• 22:30 this week.
• 22:31 Hoping for that next raise at work because a little more money
• 22:33 gets me a better vacation next.
• 22:35 There's a myriad of things today that we could be giving up for
• 22:41 instead of holding on to the promise, but remember, faith is
• 22:43 the evidence of things you don't see.
• 22:46 It requires faith for you to believe in the Father
• 22:48 to begin with.
• 22:50 You don't get to just stop using faith now that you
• 22:51 have salvation.
• 22:52 In fact, your faith is now underneath the microscope of the
• 22:56 Father as he asks you to continue to move and to work out
• 23:00 and to live.
• 23:01 Your job now is to train that faith.
• 23:04 Just as I were in the gym to get stronger and had to continue to
• 23:07 press heavier weights each time my body adapted, I'd grow bigger
• 23:10 and stronger, and more endurance would be found because of
• 23:13 my commitment.
• 23:15 I challenge you today, don't give up.
• 23:18 Don't allow your emotions to rule the decisions you make.
• 23:22 Don't settle for the passivization of the senses, but
• 23:26 hold to the vision that God has given you.
• 23:28 Do not let anything or anyone take it from you.
• 23:31 ♪♪♪
• 23:34 Israel Hanna: As you well know, I talk with about everybody, and
• 23:37 so there was this young couple walking by me, and I stopped 'em
• 23:41 and said, hello, "Boker tov," and they told me that they were
• 23:48 Arab Christians about to--they were engaged, about to get
• 23:52 married, but they were telling me what a struggle it is to be
• 23:57 an Arab Christian in the land of Israel, or anywhere in the world
• 24:01 for that matter, because they are disliked and hated by
• 24:05 almost everyone.
• 24:06 These people who are well-meaning, beautiful people
• 24:09 who love Yeshua, love the Lord, are struggling just because
• 24:15 so many things and so many people are against them.
• 24:17 I was able to pray for them and pray for their future wedding
• 24:21 and their marriage, and it was just an awesome experience
• 24:25 connecting with our brothers and sisters in Yeshua Hamashiach.
• 24:30 It was a wonderful experience.
• 24:31 We prayed blessings upon them and we try to do that wherever
• 24:34 we go throughout the land.
• 24:36 ♪♪♪
• 24:42 Caleb: You know, guys, Isaiah 49:16 says, "See, I have
• 24:45 inscribed you on the palms of my hands.
• 24:48 Your walls are continually before me."
• 24:50 That word "inscribed" in Hebrew is "lachkok."
• 24:53 It means to chisel into your hand, to literally cut out, like
• 24:56 with the Ten Commandments, that was the same Hebrew word.
• 24:59 See, God has chiseled Israel into the palm of his hand so
• 25:03 that he will never forget them.
• 25:04 He's never gonna break his covenant of love with them.
• 25:07 And as we learned last week, the land of Canaan was originally
• 25:10 promised to the Jewish people, though it took 400-plus years
• 25:13 until they finally obtained it, because Genesis 15:16 says the
• 25:17 sins of the Amorites had not yet reached its full measure.
• 25:20 Joshua: But even when Yehoshua and Kalev led the Israelites
• 25:24 into the Promised Land, there were literally Nephilim,
• 25:28 squatters, enemies trying to stop God's promises from being
• 25:31 fulfilled and trying to steal God's inheritance to his people.
• 25:35 To live by faith is no walk in the park.
• 25:37 To trust in God requires full submission.
• 25:40 You can't just obey him halfway, it requires our full devotion,
• 25:43 or else there will be stragglers left behind.
• 25:46 Just like those Amorites, the children of Israel were too lazy
• 25:50 to clear out their land, and just a generation later the sins
• 25:53 and the lifestyles of those squatters became a snare
• 25:56 to God's people.
• 25:58 Caleb: Guys, remember, there are still captives held somewhere by
• 26:00 Hamas today, whether buried deep in Gaza, carted off through
• 26:03 tunnels into Egypt, or even we've heard arriving as far
• 26:06 as Iran.
• 26:08 Zechariah 1:14 through 16 says, "This is what the Lord of
• 26:11 heaven's army says, 'My love for Jerusalem and Mount Zion is
• 26:15 passionate and strong, but I am very angry with those nations,
• 26:18 the other nations that are now enjoying peace and security.
• 26:21 I was only a little angry with my people, but the nations
• 26:24 inflicted harm on them far beyond my intentions.
• 26:27 Therefore, this is what the Lord says,
• 26:29 I have returned to show mercy to Jerusalem."
• 26:32 Now, the nations have gone too far, guys.
• 26:35 Hamas has gone too far.
• 26:37 Iran has gone too far and it's time for God to judge the
• 26:41 nations who took advantage of his people when they had turned
• 26:44 their backs on God.
• 26:46 Joshua: The time for restoration has now come for Israel, and
• 26:49 freedom to the captives.
• 26:50 It's time to take the Promised Land back and for Israel to
• 26:54 dwell in peace and safety before the time of Ezekiel 38 comes
• 26:58 to pass.
• 26:59 This and so much is happening.
• 27:02 Visit our social media.
• 27:03 We get a small ability to show you on television some of the
• 27:06 things that are happening, but social media we get to expand,
• 27:09 through our newsletter, through our website, through many
• 27:12 different ways that you can find out everything that's going on
• 27:15 in the world today in Bible prophecy.
• 27:18 As we go, [speaking in Hebrew].
• 27:20 Caleb: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:24 male announcer: Our offer on this program,
• 27:26 "Jerusalem Forever."
• 27:27 No other city in the world can claim God's personal favor
• 27:31 like Jerusalem.
• 27:33 Over 3,000 years old, Jerusalem is much more than just the seat
• 27:37 of the chosen people, it is literally an eternal city, and
• 27:41 every believer will eventually make Jerusalem his home.
• 27:44 Written by Zola Levitt, this book will inspire you to praise
• 27:47 God's faithfulness and motivate you to pray for the peace of
• 27:51 Jerusalem like never before.
• 27:54 Ask for "Jerusalem Forever."
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