(185) To Help You Understand the Conflict in Israel - Part 1

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We're in a time, and Israel is in this time, of this beating and this threshing.

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I mean, yes, the enemy is doing it. It's a horrific time, but God doesn't miss any opportunities

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to turn things together for good.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We realize that there are things going on in the earth today that are causing people to have lots

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and lots of questions. And one of those big question marks is what's going on in Israel.

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And we want to give you some perspective from our travels and our experiences and the research

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that we have done to help you understand the conflict in Israel.

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connected to our prayer times. So today, we've just been thinking about the importance of helping you

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to understand what is going on in Israel right now. There's war going on. There were terrible

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atrocities. There was a massacre that happened on October 7th, 2023. And when it first happened,

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I was thinking, okay, it's another skirmish. We've known these things before. Even the

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Yom Kippur War lasted less than three weeks. And we had plans to go to Israel at the end of October.

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And we've been sorely disappointed that we've not been able to go. We've had interesting situations

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the last few years. We had a tour that was planned for March of 2020. And that didn't happen.

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No, that didn't happen. And then we'll reschedule it for the fall, November of 2020. Well,

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that didn't happen either. And neither did it happen when we scheduled it for the next year

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in November. Didn't happen. And so then we scheduled one for November of 2023. And

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it didn't happen. So then we just scheduled just the two of us, or just a small, there were four

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of us that were going to go over. Well, no, that didn't happen either. Nope. Nope. They cancelled

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the flights. Yeah, it's a very strange time that we're living in because it's been 45 years that

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I've been going to Israel. I went the first time in 1978. And I was being trained on that tour,

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my very first one, I was being trained to become the tour coordinator. How many times have you

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been to Israel? You know, I quit counting after 30, because I thought, oh, this is just too much to

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keep up with. And then after about, I don't know how many years later, I figured, I think I've

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probably been about 40 times. And then sometime later, I think, I'm pretty sure I've been something

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like 50 times, mostly as a tour coordinator, helping people see the land. I love taking

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first timers. It just lights my inspiration up to see when people's faces light up, when they

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see and they walk on the land where the stories that they've read in the Bible, the scriptures

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that they've read, it just becomes so real to you. And so I love doing that. And it's just one of my

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passions to help people get connected with the word and the land and the people together.

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And it makes the scripture click. Absolutely. And then after you've been, then you read the

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scripture and you remember what the place looked like. I was there. I was there. I was right there

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on a boat on the Sea of Galilee. And here's this place where Jesus walked on the water.

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And walking in Capernaum where all the healings took place. All those healings and miracles. So

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we have a lot of perspective for having, well, Phillip, your first time was kind of...

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Yeah, it was 1981. Yeah. And it was our first time. And it was like our honeymoon.

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It was like our honeymoon. We were married in July and that was an amazing time. And I've

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probably been over 30 times myself. And even as a volunteer for the International Christian

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Embassy at the Feast of Tabernacles celebration, being in their choir, I did that about 10 times.

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Yeah, that was amazing. And then I've stayed over there for a month, sometimes in the earlier years.

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So we kind of, and we lived over there for three months at one time. And so it gave,

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you know, we have quite a feel for the land and what makes things tick over there.

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Yes. Because you can't judge the nation by what you're seeing in the papers.

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Oh my goodness. It's totally, as the Russians say, propaganda. So if you're listening,

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everything you're listening to, most of this on the news, you're being propaganda iced,

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if that's a word. Yeah, it is a word.

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Propaganda iced. So take everything you listen to with a grain of salt because you're not

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hearing the truth unless you're on a real Israeli site.

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Right. And even some of those are stilted the wrong direction too. But I was listening to

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someone who is an Israeli and he was talking about somebody that he knew from America that

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had, you know, he's got his ear to the ground. He's listening for what's going on in America.

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This man's a Christian and he's believing in the end times. And, you know, so it's important to

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know what's going on in Israel. And so he's listening to the news all the time. And what

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he had heard on American news had very little to do with what had actually happened

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in, you know, in this massacre around the, what they call the Gaza envelope, the communities

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that are around the Gaza Strip. And so he didn't even know what had really happened. So there's

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lots of information out there. We don't really want to go into that particularly right now,

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but there was a terrible massacre and atrocities, terrible, terrible atrocities. But we want to help

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you understand why that happened and what's going on and how the people are thinking and who's who

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in the zoo, so to speak, and just to give you some information to help you know how to pray.

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Because really, contending for the outpouring has a lot to do with contending for what's going on

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in the spirit realm in Israel, because it's God's land. He says in his words that in his word that

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it's his land. And he promised it to Abraham. And then he reiterated it more than once to Abraham.

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And I'll just give you a couple of the scriptures where he promised it. First, Abraham was called

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in Genesis 12, and God sent him to the land. Go to the land that I show you, right? And then when

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there's a covenant made where Abraham, was he Abraham by then? Yes. No, he was still Abraham.

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And he falls into a deep sleep. He's been told by the Lord to sacrifice all these animals,

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and Abraham falls into a deep sleep. And God himself comes down like a furnace and passes

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through the pieces, which is what was done to make a covenant. You would pass through the pieces

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together. But God did this himself, because he's going to keep the covenant. It's his covenant.

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It's his covenant, and it's his plan, and he's going to execute it. He's going to make it happen.

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And so in Genesis 15, he said that in the same day that the Lord made covenant with Abraham,

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saying, unto your seed have I given this land, he says, from the river of Egypt

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unto the great river, the river Euphrates. And he goes on to talk about the different

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Aites that are living there that, you know, they think it's their land, but God is basically

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saying it's my land, and I'm giving it to you and your descendants. And then in Genesis 10,

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26, he's reiterating the covenant to Isaac, Abraham's son. And he says in verse 26,

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Isaac went to Abimelek, the king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. Now Gerar is in

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the vicinity of the Gaza Strip. I don't think it's actually in the Strip. I'm not sure that

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they really know where Gerar is, whether it's actually a city or whether it's a region.

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The maps are not very clear, so I presume that the scholars are kind of not really sure.

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They're not in agreement.

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Or not in agreement, yeah. And it says in verse two, and the Lord appeared unto him,

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and which is Isaac, and said, don't go down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell you

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of, sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For unto you and unto your

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seed, I will give all these countries, plural, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham,

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your father. And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and give your seed all

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these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because Abraham

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obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments and my statutes and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in

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Gerar. Okay. Isaac lived in that region that is in conflict right now. And God said to him,

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I'm giving this to you and your descendants and all these countries that he promised, all the way

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to the Euphrates, which I think only ever came into the possession of Israel under David. David

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conquered all the way to the Euphrates and a little ways down into the Sinai. Now, there's a

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big question as to where is this river of Egypt? And there are some people that say that it's

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Awadi somewhere near that southern border that's currently the southern border.

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And that's like a wash, Awadi?

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Yeah. Awadi is like a dry riverbed that becomes a river when it rains.

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You see that when you go out west here. If you're in Class Center, State 40. So you'll see the name

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of Awadi here then.

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Yeah. And even in our own valley, we have places that when it rains, it becomes a little stream.

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But don't think that would be what God would say, what God would call a river. To me, there's only

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one river of Egypt. I think it's the Nile. But that remains to be seen. I'm not going to die on

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that hill. But you know. And this is 1900 BC. That's kind of the timeline, what it says here.

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And so we're talking almost 4,000 years ago.

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So that was when God promised to Abraham?

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Yeah.

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Okay. So 1900.

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About 1900 BC.

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Okay. So we're talking almost 4,000 years ago.

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Almost 4,000 years ago. So that is when the covenant, you know, God made a covenant with

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Abraham or Abram at this point to give the land.

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Right. And then we know that he reiterated it also to Jacob. And Jacob told it to his sons

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when they were in Egypt and said, now you're going to come out of here. God had promised them that

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they would spend 400 years being oppressed in Egypt. And then they came out of slavery and

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they came into the promised land under Joshua and so on. We don't need to go into all that history.

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But I'm just saying that there is history that is verifiable archaeologically.

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Yeah. There's more archaeological finds in Israel per square foot.

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Yeah, it seems like.

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Than probably anywhere else. Amazing.

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And certainly that it connects to the Bible. If you search through YouTube, you will find

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all kinds of information of archaeological finds that are happening now. They keep happening. They

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keep finding things that agree with the word of God and agree with the fact that the Israelites

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were there over the last 4,000 years.

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Yeah.

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Okay. So where did this Palestine thing come from? What happened? How did this happen?

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We're just going to take a quick look at this history. So we know that when Israel went into

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captivity with Assyria, shortly thereafter, some years thereafter, Judah went into captivity to

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Babylon for 70 years. Then they came back. Some of them, some of them stayed there.

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And there's what they call the diaspora, where the dispersion of the Jews went out through that 70

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years and through the captivity of Assyria that Assyria brought on Israel. They dispersed

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throughout the nations. And that's something God was in because they were disobedient. Okay?

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God warned them and warned them and warned them and warned them. And it was like 400 years

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from the time that Saul came in as king until they were sent out into Babylonian captivity.

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So it's not like it happened overnight that God suddenly got mad.

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Yeah.

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Okay. It happened over a period of something like 400 years. So that's something like a

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hundred generations. God kept giving them another chance and another chance.

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And every time there would be a little bit of a revival and people would come back to God and it

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would last for a generation or two and then they'd fall back.

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And they'd get a bad king.

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Yeah. But it's all because they didn't obey him in the first place and deal with all of the

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Canaanites. Now I heard an interesting interview recently with Nehemiah Gordon and Rabbi Yehuda

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Glick. And one thing that Rabbi Glick said that I thought really helped me understand the why of

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Israel wiping out the Canaanites and why God said to wipe them out. It's because in Genesis, Exodus,

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Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, all five of the books of the Torah, in every book,

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it's made clear that you're not supposed to kill anybody because we're made in the image of God.

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So we're supposed to value life and valuing that life that comes from God. But what he said was

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that the Canaanites did not value life and they were violent and they were killing all the time

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and they were sacrificing their babies, their very own offspring, they're sacrificing to false

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gods. So he said that's the reason why God said, okay, it's time to wipe them out because it's like

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this. God said, don't murder. When he said, thou shalt not kill, he meant thou shalt not murder.

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That's the Hebrew, don't murder. But then he also said that if a person murders,

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their blood is supposed to be shed in order to take away the curse of the shedding of innocent

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blood. Okay, one cancels the other. And that's why we as believers in Yeshua, we believe that

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he paid the price, that Jesus paid the price for us on the cross. And his blood now substitutes

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where in other circumstances where you would have to shed someone's blood. And it's not that I'm

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necessarily against capital punishment. I think there are times when it's appropriate. But the

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point is, that's the reason why the Canaanites had to be wiped out. It's cause and effect.

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They were murderers. They were murders of their own children. And God wanted that whole thing wiped

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out to cleanse the land of the murder of the shedding of innocent blood that had already taken

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place on the land. So that's why the Canaanites had to be wiped out. Okay. So I thought that was

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an interesting point that helped me understand a lot of what's going on. So when the tribe of Judah

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came back from Babylon, and I'm sure that there were members of other tribes that came back as

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well that had been dispersed in Babylon, when they came back and resettled the land, all went

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well for a while until Alexander the Great showed up in something like 330 BC. And he was bent on

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taking over the whole region. And when he died, then he separated, the land was separated by his

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generals and different ones had a section. And then there was this horrible Antiochus Epiphanes

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was one of the ones that took over that region. And he's the one that sacrificed a pig on the

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altar and set up his own idol in the temple. And the Maccabees rose up and came back.

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And they had the miracle of Hanukkah with the oil that was enough for one day lasting eight days.

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And that's the area where it's like 400 silent years between the end of the Old Testament to

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the start of the New Testament. Yeah, it's about 400 years of history there. Yeah, it's another 400

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year history. I think it's interesting that there's these clumps of 400 years. And I've been studying

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this and I'm interested, you just watch, just pay attention to where there's a 400 year thing,

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because it's been 400 years since the Mayflower. I think that's an interesting little piece of

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information. Anyway, that's a bunny trail, we won't go on. So when the Maccabees rose up and

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there was a strong government set in place that the Jews were in charge for a season,

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and then they asked the Romans for help against the Greeks. Well, that invited Rome to come and

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take over. And then Rome became the oppressor. And so they were in charge when Jesus came.

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And what happened was there were some other revolts that came after that, that the zealots,

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the zealots, you may have heard the word zealot in your New Testament, right? So Simon the Zealot

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was one of, and Judas Iscariot was a zealot too. But what happened was that there were these

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revolts and Rome would come and crush them. And then there was a revolt in 135 AD, well, this is

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after Rome had already destroyed the temple in 70 AD, but there was one final revolt. And Rome was so

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done with the Jews that they came in and absolutely crushed, they crushed Judaism.

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They made the vast majority leave, not everybody left. There were Jews left in place always,

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there've always been Jews there. But Rome was so fed up that they no longer called the province Judea.

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...Palestina.

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...Palestina. They named it after the Philistines. That's who they named it after, the Philistines.

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You remember Goliath of Gath was a Philistine, okay? Abimelek was a Philistine. And the

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Philistines were troublemakers the whole time. The tribe of Dan wasn't successful getting rid of them.

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So they just moved up north because it was too hard for them. They settled someplace else. They

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didn't do their job. The Philistines should have been dealt with back then.

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And what is part of their territory?

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Gaza.

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Today, Gaza.

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Exactly.

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That's their territory.

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Exactly. So Rome renamed the land, Palestina, as a slap in the face to the Jews. They wanted to wipe

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off all memory of the Jews. They wanted it to never be called Judea again. And so they

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slapped the Jews in the face, as it were, by renaming this after the ancient enemies of

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Israel that had only lived in that southwest section of the land, you know, just right along

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the Mediterranean, the Gaza Strip, and a little bit above that, Ashdod, Ashkelon. Those cities were

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Philistine cities. And so Rome renamed the entire land Palestine or Palestina. And they called it

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Syria Palestina because it was connected to Syria. So then in the 600s, the Muslims came. And there

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was one... There was conquest after conquest with it. The Muslims came first and then the crusaders,

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and then there was back and forth a bit. And then there were different groups of Muslims that wanted

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to rule. So now we're going to cover more of the other side of the conflict in part two. I just

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want to point out that, you know, at this point, the Muslims came. They did not call it Palestine.

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They had their own names for it. I don't want to go into what they called it, but you can look

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that up for yourself. And I just want to help you to understand why it's been called Palestine

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and why we have this confusion now about it. It originally wasn't called Palestine.

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And these British scholars, God bless them, and the European scholars that wrote things in the 17

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and 1800s and early part of the 20th century, they were calling it Palestine because that's what it

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said on the maps from Rome. It was called Palestine under Rome. So they didn't call it Judea when they

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were writing their scholarly material. And I don't know why. They would talk about Palestine in the

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time of Christ. Well, it wasn't called Palestine in the time of Christ. It was called Judea, even

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though it was under Rome at the time, it was called Judea. So that's one of my little things

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that bothers me, you know, that they would call it Palestine in the time of Christ. And it wasn't

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called Palestine in those days. So that's why there's a lot of confusion because

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scholars who have studied the Bible and have studied these writings of the scholars of the

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17 and 1800s, you know, there was a lot of scholarly material that came out once the Bible became

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available to the laymen and became into print. So it just created more confusion to continue to

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call it Palestine. And then when the British came in 1917, and in 1920, when they documented things,

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they called it Palestine, even though they were talking about making a homeland for the Jews,

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they called it officially Palestine. So that's where the confusion has come. And we'll talk more

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about the other side of things. But here's a little interesting piece of information that came into

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my hands recently that there was an article that was written in 2007. And maybe you know about this,

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but I didn't about a book. I'm no Latin scholar, but it's it was written in Latin. It's called

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Palestina ex monumentis Veteribus Illustrata by Hadriani Rilandi. And Hadriani Rilandi was a

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Dutchman that came in 1695 to the Holy Land to what he called Palestina, because he didn't know

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any better. Yeah. That's what the Romans had last called it. That's what the maps said in their day.

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Okay. And so he was a cartographer. That means he was a map maker. Kind of like Lewis and Clark

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in this country. Right. So he went there on a journey. He was like a tourist, but he was a

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cartographer. He wanted to make maps. And he was also a scholar of the languages. So he could speak

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Hebrew. He could speak Arabic. He could speak Greek. He knew Latin. He wrote the book in Latin.

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Okay. And it was published in 1714. And there are precious few of them out there. And you can find

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pictures and so on online. I found some of the maps and printed them. I'm fascinated with the maps

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because he was very, very careful to mark things according to what the Bible said, according to the

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Talmud, according to the Mishnah, which are other Jewish writings in case you're not familiar with

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those. But he made these amazing maps. And he also kind of did a census as he was going throughout

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the land. He located all these little villages and counted the people in them, counted the number of

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families and so on. And he recorded this information. And it's really amazing what he discovered.

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But this particular article that is by Avi Goldreich, and it's originally published on

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think-israel.org, and several people have copied it and posted it. These are some of his prominent

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conclusions. And I'll just read a few of these things. Most of the settlement names originate in

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the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Roman languages. In fact, till today, except to Ramla, not one Arabic

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settlement has an original Arabic name. For instance, the name Nablus, that comes from the

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Latin that means new city. And it's kind of Arabicized. It's not Latin anymore, but it's

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not Latin anymore, but it's Arabicized. Sort of like when we Anglicize a word to make it fit in

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English. Okay, so then it goes on to say, till today, most of the settlements names are of Hebrew

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or Greek origin, the names distorted to senseless Arabic names. There is no meaning in Arabic to

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names such as Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, or Jenin, and towns named Ramla, El-Haleel, and El-Quds

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for Jerusalem lack historical roots or Arabic philology, which means, okay, they're not Arabic

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sourced words. In 1696, the year Rilandi toured the land, Ramla, for instance, was called

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Beit Ala from the Hebrew name Beit El. House of God. Yeah. So another point is that most of the

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land was empty and desolate, and the inhabitants few in number and mostly concentrate in the towns

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of Jerusalem, Akko, Tzvat, Jaffa, Tiberias, and Gaza. Most of the inhabitants were Jews and the

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rest Christians. They were few Muslims, mostly nomad Bedouins. Nablus, known as Shechem, was

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exceptional where approximately 120 people, members of the Muslim Nat-Sha family, and approximately 70

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Samaritans lived. In the Galilee capital, Nazareth, lived approximately 700 Christians,

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and in Jerusalem, approximately 5,000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.

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The interesting part was that Rilandi mentioned the Muslims are as nomad Bedouins who arrived in

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the area as construction and agricultural labor, agriculture labor reinforcement seasonal workers.

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Okay. Yeah. So this wasn't their home. They were just brought in.

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Well, they were Bedouins. So they travel.

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They would, you know, if they have their flocks, they're going to move with their flocks.

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There's grass.

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Right. They follow the grass.

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In Gaza, for example, here's an interesting point. In Gaza, for example, lived approximately 550

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people, 50% Jews, and the rest mostly Christians. Tiberias and Tzvat were mostly Jewish, and except

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of mentioning fishermen fishing in Lake Canary, the Lake of Galilee, a traditional Tiberias

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occupation, there was no mention of their occupations. A town like Um El Fahem was a village

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where 10 families, approximately 50 people in total, all Christian, lived, and there was also

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a small Maronite church in the village. So I just want to comment on this, that the people that were

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living in that land at that time were perhaps called Palestinians. But I don't know that the

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Ottomans actually called them Palestinians. I think they probably called them Arabs and Jews and

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Christians because Palestine wasn't national name of a place. There was never a state of Palestine.

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It was always a region that was under somebody else's control. And so that's why we have this

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amazing confusion that's coming from a narrative that has no basis in history. And we'll talk more

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about that in the next episode. But we want to talk a little bit more just for a few moments

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about how to pray for Israel because this is an amazing, amazingly difficult, horrific,

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horrific time. And the people of Israel are in mourning because of the massacre that happened

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on October 7th. And everybody, it's a small country, so everybody knows somebody

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that was lost in that. And now they're starting to lose some soldiers and everybody knows somebody.

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And so the whole country is in mourning. And you're seeing a unity come where there,

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in recent months before, there was quite a lot of turmoil where the left and the right were really

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fighting each other. And so you have among the Jewish people, the Israelis, you have a lot of

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differences of opinion. There are secular Jews. Among the secular Jews, there's divisions of

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agnostics and atheists and, you know, there's some that are Buddhists and Hindus that have

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gone looking for something else. And you'll have those that are kind of like, they know that there's

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a God and they know that they should do something, but they might only just participate in the fast

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on Yom Kippur and they don't practice anything else. Or then there's those that'll keep Shabbat,

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but they'll never go to synagogue. And there's just, there's different levels, there's

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different streams, just like we have multiple streams in Christianity, there's also multiple

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streams in Judaism. So you've got all of these different people that are right now at least

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somewhat unified for the purpose of mourning together and fighting together. And those who

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are not typical of taking up arms, you know, the very Orthodox, they might not go into the army,

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although some of them have, but they'll come alongside and they'll help. We just heard a story

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recently of some of these folks that got together and brought a truck with washers and dryers. I

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don't know how they did all this to have the water supply and the electric supply, but they

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brought them to the front so that the soldiers could get their fatigues washed and dried and

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they even ironed them for them. You know, they're coming alongside to help. They're going to do what

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they can to help. So there's a unifying that's taking place, but they're all in mourning as well.

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So this is a time when we need to pray for them, first of all, that they will unify

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and put their eyes on their heavenly father. They'll put their eyes on the God of Israel

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and they'll realize that we can't do this ourselves. We have to have the help of God.

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And until they humble themselves and pray and seek his face, remember that 2 Chronicles 7,

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14 was written for them. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and

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pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will

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forgive their sins and heal their land. The Lord spoke that. And so this is a message that needs to

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get to every person, every Israeli needs to come to that place where they are humble themselves and

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turn to their heavenly father. And as they're turning, many of them are going to also discover

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that their Messiah has been there for the last 2000 years almost and has been available and is

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their redeemer. This is a time you may have heard Chuck Pierce or some others talking about this

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year that just came in with Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets, that this new year is 5-7-8-4

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and that number, it doesn't actually spell anything. Sometimes there's a word that comes out

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because the numbers in Hebrew are also letters so you can spell things with it. But in this particular

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case, some folks have looked at the Strong's Concordance Hebrew number 5-7-8-4 and they've

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discovered that it is the word for chaff that is used in Daniel. And if you look at the picture of

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chaff, you know, chaff is the husk or the covering that's around the grain that you have to beat it

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to loosen it and then you throw it up into the air and the wind will blow away the chaff. And

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you can liken that to the fleshly nature that we have compared to the Spirit. You know, you have to

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kind of, sometimes you go through a beating in order to discover, oh, I guess my problem is that

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I'm in the flesh instead of in the Spirit. And so Israel is going through this beating and I'm

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thinking that other nations are doing that or our only nation, United States, I believe is in that

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kind of a chaff-beating, threshing time that God is trying to deal with us and get us to wake up to

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Him so that we can get down to the grain itself that has value. The grain is what you grind into

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flour and that can become bread and feed the hungry. But chaff, you know, every once in a while

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if you're eating some of that kind of really healthy bread that came from whole grains,

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once in a while you'll find a little bit of that husk, that chaff in it and you just have to spit

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it out, you know, it doesn't chew up. So we're in a time and Israel is in this time of this beating

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and this threshing. I mean, yes, the enemy is doing it. It's a horrific time, but God doesn't

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miss any opportunities to turn things together for good. That's what He does according to Romans 8.28.

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So pray for Israel in this time. We know that God has a plan and it is an amazing plan. So we know

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that God has promised this land to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And we want you to

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understand God's heart for keeping His covenant. That's what He does. He's a covenant-keeping God.

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And there's a wonderful scripture in the Psalms that says, you will arise and have mercy on Zion.

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For the time to favor her, yea, the set time has come. And I just want to encourage you to go out

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to our YouTube channel and we'll put a link to this in the show notes. Claren McQueen, a dear,

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dear friend of ours and member of this ministry, also an amazing, amazing worship leader. He has

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lived in Israel and he understands so much more than we do even of God's purposes for Israel and

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what God wants to do and how He's doing it and how He's fulfilling His Word. So I want to encourage

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you to go to the podcast that we did with him about this and also to the message that he preached

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at our convention 2023 that so clearly outlines what is in God's heart and how Israel is a key

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in God's plan and purpose in the whole earth. So get the rest of this and we're going to go into

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the other side of the conflict in our next episode. It will be part two. And so tune in next time and

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get the rest of the story the way the Lord has showed it to us to share with you so that you

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understand both sides of this situation and be in prayer for Israel and be in prayer for the

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hostages and be in prayer for the people that are really hostages to Islam. That's what we're going

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to talk about next time. God bless you. Amen. Amen.

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