(258) “Chosen People, Promised Land” with Gene Little

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In Ezekiel 37, 12, I will bring you back to the

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land of Israel. This is a promised land, promised

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to the Jewish people, promised, chosen. And I'll

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put my spirit in you and you shall live. I'm

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waiting for that. Let's get excited. That's not

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just from a millennium. Ezekiel 37, 14, I shall

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put my spirit in you and you shall live. God

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promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may

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engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.

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

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We have with us our friend of many, many years,

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Dr. Gene Little, who is involved, along with

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his wife, in running our house in Jerusalem.

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And he's going to be one of our speakers at Convention

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2025, May 21st through 24th. We want to invite

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you to come. And he's going to be speaking about

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Israel. So he's going to be giving us a little

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taste of what's coming at the convention about

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God's chosen people and his promised land. Thank

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you so much for joining us today. We're really

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looking forward to this podcast ourselves, and

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so we expect you will be too. Hopefully, all

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of our listeners are very interested in what's

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going on in Israel. It's a very important thing

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on God's heart because the Bible comes from there.

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And if you're a believer in the Bible, you need

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to understand how Israel functions. But before

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we get started, we want to encourage you, if

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you haven't already done so, to go to our website,

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globaloutpouring .net, and make sure that you're

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on our mailing list and our email list, that

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is. and that you are preparing to come to Global

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Outpouring Convention 2025, May 21st through

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24th in St. Louis at the St. Louis Airport Marriott.

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We are going to have a glorious time there in

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deep worship and deep intercession and deep Word

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of God. If you love the things of God, if you're

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hungry for more of God, it doesn't matter whether

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you're a newbie or a veteran. You belong there,

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and you're going to find other people of life.

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Like Precious Faith. And it's for all of the

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family. We have a nursery and children's meetings

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and teens are going to have their own special

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place and time that they can be meeting together.

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It's going to be a time for the family to grow

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in God. So we just encourage you to come. So

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today we have with us Gene Little, Dr. Gene Little.

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And he's, boy, we've known you for many, many

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years. And we've had your wife on this podcast

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as well, Mary Lois. So welcome to the Global

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Outpouring Podcast again. You've been with us

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before. Thank you, Sharon. Thank you. I'm so

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glad to be here. Both you asked me here and be

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on this podcast and say hello to all the listeners

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today. Yes. I was just asking you before we got

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started about, like, what are you a doctor in?

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Well, I did my early education at the University

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of Washington, got a bachelor's degree in political

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science, and then I did a number of years in

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the military as an officer and got out. And we

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did one year at Chrysler Nations. And, you know,

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part of this came about when I was in the military.

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Mary Lois and I, we— We just fell in and got

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the Holy Spirit while we were in Italy. And that

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just, I tell you, being baptized in the Holy

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Spirit will change your life around for the good

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and bring the fire and excitement like you haven't

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seen before. So I really felt led in those early

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days to get out of the military. But I asked

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the Lord, I was on an aircraft carrier and loved

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everything that I was doing. And I said, Lord,

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if I do get out, I feel like Peter. I'm going

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to step out of the boat. I'm going to walk on

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water. And go into the ministry. But you've got

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to help me because I never looked at a Bible

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until I was 30 years old. And I need some help,

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Lord. So if you'd send me to a Bible school.

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Well, I ended up going to Oral Roberts for three

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years, getting a master's degree in divinity

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with a specialty in books of the Bible and parables

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and Timothy. And I just loved it. I have a real

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gift to write. Yes. And I've spent many years

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either writing books or doing something on the

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Internet where you write little articles. So

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that's been my life. I've been in education and

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got a doctorate in literature from Sloan Bible

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College up in Des Moines. And here we are. Yeah.

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How many books have you written? I think about

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eight or nine. I'm always writing the next one.

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Yes, you are. What's the next one about? Next

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one, my son suggested I write something called

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Tactical Devotions. That's good. Yes. So anyway,

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I'm having fun with that, although I've got two

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or three others that I really need to get, and

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I need to move on that too. Find something good

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to write about. It's easier than ever to write

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now and publish and print something. Oh, yes.

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Absolutely. So you also wrote a devotional about

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Jerusalem. Yes. Tell us about that. I have a

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book. It's called Jerusalem Lest I Forget Thee.

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And it's about 52 devotions that I sat before

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the Lord. Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times or

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more in the Scriptures. And I took 52 of them,

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one for each week, plus I had an added one in

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case of leap year. But you could read them like

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during the Shabbat meal. Oh, nice. You could

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sit down and read it all at once, but I think

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to get the really flavor, just read it one at

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a time, once a week. It's a very good one. That's

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a great one. We had a great time on Shabbat.

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We used to do that. And it was about Elijah.

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Oh, yeah, the stories of Elijah. The stories

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of Elijah. I remember that. That was always exciting.

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So you also delved deeply into study about Islam,

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and you wrote a book about that. Yes. After you

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taught a course about it in our school of ministry.

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Yes. Tell us about that book. Originally, we

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taught a course. I was praying one morning. Sister

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Gwen had asked, what should we teach? We had

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to give her notice of what we were going to teach

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about. I felt the Lord whisper in my ear, His

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still, soft, silent voice, just before I got

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up, teach my children the tenets of Islam, for

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they're going to need to know these things in

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the days to come. And what year was that? That

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was, I think, before 9 -1 -1. Oh, yeah, I think

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it was in the 90s still, wasn't it? It was. I

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remember that. I taught it twice, and then 9

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-1 -1 happened, and then we put it into a book,

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and I've had it all these years to study. The

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mystery of Islam. Mystery of Islam. It is in

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many ways a mystery. Some ways I know. My wife

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heard a word from the Lord, though, that in the

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days to come, the Lord will utterly humiliate

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Islam. And, you know, they come to know Christ

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in increasing numbers. I just believe in that

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for a revival in there. People get tired of that

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heavy cloak of Islam, and they're searching in

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dreams and in miracles and in ways to come. It's

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easier than ever. Find the Bible on the internet

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and they can read the liberating word of God.

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It's true. It's true. The people who begin to

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feel free enough, feel daring enough to dare

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to read the Bible. And even though the Quran

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says that you should read the book and you should

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read the Injil, the Gospels. But, you know, I

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don't think they're even really reading the Quran

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that much, probably, unless they're studying

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to go deeper. We've really been praying for a

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great harvest in Islam because it's such a deception

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that, well, we weren't really planning on going

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down that bunny trail, but it's a serious, serious

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subject. And we've been praying a lot for the

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Muslims because they're so passionate about...

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what they believe. And when they become believers

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in Jesus, they become passionate believers in

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Jesus. And where they were Israel haters before,

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when they meet the King of the Jews, everything

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changes. Hallelujah. And we're on the front lines.

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We see that happening, not a whole lot, but by

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the ones and the twos, people have their lives

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changed. If not only the Word of God, but worship.

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When they hear worship, they just get into that

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and just come to the true Messiah and find that

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hate drop off. And they come into really loving

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the Lord. Beautiful, beautiful. So tell us what

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the Lord has put on your heart. Don't preach

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the whole sermon, because we want everybody to

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come to the convention and hear the whole thing.

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But what is the Lord moving you and leading you

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to bring at this convention? Ooh. A thimbleful.

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Thimbleful. We're going to talk about... God's

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miracle nation is miracle people. I have Israel

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on my heart. God has brought us over there. True

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miracle. It's been 27 years that we've been in

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that land, coming and going. And I really feel

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more than ever that we are God's ambassadors.

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And we haven't had any trouble. We just were

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there. And God opens the door. And I can't say

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that we've done an enduring work, maybe not a

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great work, but we've been on the right place

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at the right time. As you know, we have a hospitality

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house there that Sister Gwen, many years ago,

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heard the word of the Lord. going up to White

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Plains, New York. And I love it. You must know

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how the Lord can break into your life at any

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time. How he can just whisper something, totally

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shake you up. And like, where did that thought

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come from? Still soft voice. And she heard the

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voice of the Lord. saying, I am going to thrust

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you and your ministry into Jerusalem. And she

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asked Papa Jim and asked you, Sharon, what thrust

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meant. And then if I recall the story, she forgot

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all about that. Yes, she did. Derek Kuhn one

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night was preaching on the future times of Israel,

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and somebody suggested. We need to have a house

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in Israel. No, he prophesied it. He prophesied

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it. He said, Sister Gwen, you have to have a

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house in Israel. And, you know, they ignited

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something right there. They sure did. People

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just started coming up. I've never seen. Yeah,

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with $1 ,000 checks, and Sister Gwen had stood

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up, and she sat down. I'm not taking an offering.

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Because she didn't want to do it. She had forgotten

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that word. That night, I think we raised $58

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,000, put it into account, and she sent Mary

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Lois and I out there to look for a house. And

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that was exciting. We had been coming to Israel,

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just briefly background there, that my wife had

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been coming since the 1980s to sing in the Feast

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of Tabernacles. Yeah, in the choir. Part of the

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choir with you guys as well. And then I came

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to Feast of Tabernacles a few years later to

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work in logistics. And God caused that love of

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Israel just to explode in our hearts. And I think

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it was something that Sister Gwen saw, because

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we were just surprised, as anybody else said,

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she asked us not only to find a house there,

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but to shepherd over it, to manage it. We actually

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found a Holy Ghost real estate agent, Messianic,

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as well as another real estate agent, and then

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set apart looking for God's promise to come to

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pass in His Word. And in, I think, a number of

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weeks or months, we found... a home that fit

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all the requirements that we needed for ministry.

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And Sister Gwen saw it, and she just started

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crying. And she said, when I cry, I buy. And

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so that was the next step of faith that we had

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to do was to raise the funds. That was a big

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step of faith. Big step of faith for a smaller

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ministry. But I challenge you out there that

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if God has called you something to do, you may

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have to step out in faith, but He will. He'll

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back you up. If he's given you the promise, he's

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given you the decree, and you may have to stretch

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your faith like we did. And we were able to purchase

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a beautiful penthouse, I would call it, because

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there's no regular homes in Jerusalem. It's a

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city tightly compacted together, always has been.

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We have been there for 27 years now with ministry

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meetings, with the hospitality. Been there in

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good times and in bad times. Oh, yeah. And welcomed

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the saints of the Lord and had just an ongoing

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work to let Jesus' light shine. Yeah. Yes. Now,

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didn't you tell us right before this what the

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Lord spoke to you when you said, you know, do

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you want me to be a pastor? What was your question

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to him and what was his answer? Going into the

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ministry, I had felt, first of all, you have

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your education. I felt really I needed an education

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to come into the ministry, and it was the desire

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of my heart. And as I finished up my degree in

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Oral Roberts, you know, I kind of did this kind

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of backwards, but I said, Lord, okay. what would

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you have me to do? What direction now that I'm

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graduating? And I heard a still soft voice of

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the Lord again, and you can, you get your spirit

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quiet, you can hear the Lord. That's true. And

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he said, I've not called you to be a pastor.

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And I go, oh no, what else is there to do? Yeah,

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what did I just spend time and money for this

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education for? But he said, I'll give you a pastor's

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heart. So one thing led to another, but I had

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felt, What God was calling us to was really a

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missionary outreach work. And as there's lots

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of things you can do for the kingdom of God.

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And during those early years, we did go to Cuba

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and Mexico, Honduras, Canada, and a lot of other

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nations in there on short -term mission trips

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and some long -term trips. And I think it was

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good preparation work for God putting Israel

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on our heart. And so we're there. Not that you're

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out on the streets trying to get people saved

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because that's not legal there, right? No, it's

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not. I think my ministry here, I am not so much

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an evangelist, I'm a teacher. And that's a perfect

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venue to have to teach Bible classes for those

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that would like to come. And we've taught Zechariah.

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We've taught some of the other minor prophets

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and special events that we've had, speakers that

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come and have ministry there. And it's a good

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place there. And it's a watering hole for the

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believers there. It's an oasis that we have.

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And we're not very far from Sukkot Alel, which

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is 24 -hour praise and worship ministry, and

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some of the other ministries that are. You know,

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there are a significant number of Christians

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in that land, as well as Muslims and Jewish believers.

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Yes. So you're talking at the convention about

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Israel, promised land and God's people. Give

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us some highlights. I want to start out, Sharon.

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with Daniel 9, 25, and 26. Because that's what

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he laid on my heart. We have a believer there,

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a Jewish believer, that always says that the

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city will be built in troublesome times. Yes,

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that's what the Word says. She always reminds

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us of that. And in the 27 years we've been there,

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we've had times of peace, times of war, times

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of terrorism, but this city is being built. And

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I tell people, if you go away for a six months,

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you will not recognize what's happening. But

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even though in the midst of this war that started

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October 7th, 2023, and we may go back to that,

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it's an ongoing warfare right now as well with

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Hamas kidnapping over 200 people and they still

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hold 35. But Israel is in a building spree, especially

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Jerusalem, that you will see. We have the red

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line, which is a light rail system that goes

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from Nevi Yakov now in the far north by Ramallah,

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goes all the way to Hadassah Hospital. And that's

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a light rail for passengers. We have one, the

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blue line, that's going to be built and it's

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going to connect at the old train station. And

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they're going to put an underground train connection

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to Tel Aviv. Wow, underground. Underground, and

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it will connect with a light rail. And then the

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Green Line as well. So it's going to be an urban

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city with a lot of urban transportation. But

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it is being built in troublesome times. And past

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the year, we've just come back from spending

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six months in Israel. And during even... The

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worst of times when Iran sent over 300 missiles

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one night and they were exploding over our heads.

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And, you know, it makes you a man of prayer,

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a man of faith as you lie there and hearing these

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things. But the city is not only being built

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with a light rail and other things. There's a

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lot of multi -story buildings coming up, high

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rises. And they're going to be all along Hebron

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Road and in other areas there. The Lord is preparing

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that city for something great. And it has always

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been. Jerusalem has attracted not only people

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from the nations there, and the nations are there,

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but so much more. And we are waiting in anticipation

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for so much more. We feel like we're one light

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that people can come and be refreshed. But I'm

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looking for a great wave of revival. And why

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not? Amen. Why not? Amen. So we pray to that

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end and many others. Beautiful. Beautiful. What

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else? Okay. When we look at this land, when we

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look at this people, how God originally made

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a promise to Abraham. And in that promise, he

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brought him up and showed him all the stars and

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all the sands and said, your seed is going to

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be like this in Genesis 15. He gave him an eternal

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promise that I give you this land and your seed

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shall inherit it. You know, I think a younger

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generation forgets sometimes the promises that

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are in the Word, that this Word was to the Jewish

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people through Abraham, through his son Isaac,

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not through the bondwoman, not through Ishmael.

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You know, an eternal promise in Genesis 12, 7,

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to your descendants, I will give you this land.

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It's there. It's always been their land. Many

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times I think the devil through the Romans and

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through other persecutions have tried to eradicate

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the Jews from the land. They keep coming back.

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It's an eternal promise. And even as you read

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through Genesis and Genesis 13, 14. Lift up your

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eyes now and look on this place, north, south,

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east, and westward. For all the land that I see,

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I give it to you and your descendants forever.

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Amen. Eternal promise. God doesn't go back on

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his promises. That's right. He doesn't abrogate

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them as the Muslims have in some of their, like

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in the Koran, that doesn't apply anymore. So

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he made a covenant and offered a sacrifice, and

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God went through. If you remember the covenant

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there, he went through as he split these animals

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apart. Oh, yeah. And God came through with a

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fiery torch. And God said. I am obligated myself

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to this covenant. This land is given to you.

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And he repeated this to Isaac, repeated this

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to Jacob. And then even to Moses. What was Moses

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called? They were delivered out of Egypt into

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the promised land. And I know that God said this

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is an everlasting promise. I think the greatest

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miracle, though, was that. even after our Lord

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was there as the promised Messiah and walked

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the land. And you find the Romans coming in,

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exiling the Jews for 2 ,000 years. But then in

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1948, they were brought back through not only

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the decision of the United Nations, but God brought

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his people back into that land. And it's been

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77 years now, and we've had a front. door front

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window on what's happening in that land for we've

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been there almost 30 years and to see what's

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going on even though it's been troublesome times

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the people are coming back. He's bringing the

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bones back to life, and he's bringing the flesh

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back on the bones, as he said in Ezekiel. I'm

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waiting now for the Spirit of God to come in.

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Yes. And even the name Israel may intrigue you,

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but Israel was given as a name to Jacob. He had

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wrestled all night with that angel, and he said,

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I'm not going to let you go till you bless me.

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Jacob was really a tough guy, even though Angel

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had put his hip out of whack and everything.

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And so he says, let me go. The sun's rising.

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He said, I'm not going to let you go. And I think

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that's a good word for us. Sometimes it's like,

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Lord, I'm going to hang on to you. I'm not going

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to let you go. said you're going to be called

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Israel now no more Jacob which means schemer

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which means uh more than that Jacob was he was

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a real prize God changed not only he changed

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his whole personality the name of Israel's prince

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Prince of God, a prince, you know, that has prevailed

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and struggled. And I think the nation, in taking

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that name, has taken upon the wrestlings like

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Jacob did. They've had to wrestle, and God wrestles

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with his people to bring them back and to unify

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them. So it has been having a front row seat,

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seeing this there. When you look at Jacob and

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Esau, and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.

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Yeah, you don't think of him as being a wrestler.

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You don't think of him going out guiding sheep.

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I mean, he's got pale skin probably. He wasn't

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out in the sun like his brother Esau, out as

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a hunter. So he stays in the tent. He's not tough.

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He's not used to maybe being out at night in

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the desert or because you're hunting, you don't

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always get back at night. But he had to learn

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to be tough. Prophetic of Israel. They had to

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learn to be tough because they were pushed around

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for all these years, all through Europe, still

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being pushed around. But now they have a homeland

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and out of their homeland, they're making Jehovah's

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name known. Amen. The God of Israel. God of Israel.

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Yes. Amen. One of the stories I like is found

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in Zechariah 8 .23. And I love the promises of

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God towards Israel, towards the Jewish people.

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They're not like replacement theology to where

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you think that, well, all these promises are

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now for the church. Some of these can only be

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applied to Israel and to the Jewish people. And

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Zechariah 8 .23 is... quite unique. It says in

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the last days that 10 men out of every language

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of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish

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man saying, let us go with you for we've heard

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that God is with you. Yes. Now, I was down by

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the pool asylum and we'd taken Hezekiah's tunnel.

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I was leading a tour group there. And while I

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was waiting for the rest of them to catch up,

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somehow I was in front of them all. I was near

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a guard. You know, he was kind of, I think he

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was nominal Jewish, older man, and I'm not young

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myself. And just to make conversation, he said,

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well, what brings you here? And I looked and

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I said, well, I believe I'm one of those 10 men

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that the Bible says that in the last days are

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going to grab the hold of a Jew and say, I want

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to go with you because I know the Lord is with

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you. And when I said that, he started weeping.

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He started crying because many Jews, they're

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rejected people. And you can easily take offense

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when you're rejected, but also just to demonstrate

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the love that the Gentiles or someone might have

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for somebody that's Jewish. Of course, what I

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didn't say, and I should have, was the robe of

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the Jew that I've grabbed hold of is Jesus Christ.

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But even so, many of these people, they may appear

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to be secular, but they know the word. They know

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the word that in the last days, 10 men, 10 women

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are going to grab the hold of a Jew. And I think

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that's part of our challenge is to love the Jew

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and to know that God's promises apply to the

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Jewish people, as well as that I know we're grafted

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in. We can claim some of those promises, but

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praise God. So a little thing that I saw that

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he shall place you again. He has brought them

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this far after 2 ,000 years to place them in

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their own land. And we'll find that in Ezekiel

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37. 13 and 14, I will place you in your own land.

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Yes. Now, it hasn't been easy. It's almost like

00:26:48.630 --> 00:26:52.309
the time of Joshua where you've had to come against

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those that don't want you there. And maybe you

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have to come against terrorism. And it's exciting

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to live in that land. with not only the politics

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and different opinions. Somebody told me living

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in Israel is like a fruit salad, only it's not

00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:18.019
mixed. But let me tell you some of what God is

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doing in Isaiah 19, 18, five cities will speak

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the language of Canaan. Wow. And that refers

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to five cities in Egypt. God is moving even in

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Egypt where in their universities, they are teaching

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the Hebrew language. Wow. Usually after so many

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years being suspicious of Israel, there's an

00:27:41.490 --> 00:27:43.730
opening there that people want to learn of the

00:27:43.730 --> 00:27:46.509
Hebrew language. Five cities are going to speak

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that language. It appears to me maybe an increase

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of Israel's borders are also coming in time.

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So this land may expand. It's prophesied. It's

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what's been promised, so we should expect it.

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That's because Isaiah 19, 23, and 25 talks about

00:28:03.230 --> 00:28:06.410
the Isaiah 19 highway. Yes. And he'd say, well,

00:28:06.470 --> 00:28:10.509
that's for the millennium, but why not now? Sure.

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We can make some efforts there to bring that

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highway to pass. Amen. You've got to start somewhere.

00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:20.190
You've got to start somewhere. So you pray it

00:28:20.190 --> 00:28:22.410
into being. You contend for it. Yeah, that's

00:28:22.410 --> 00:28:27.049
good. But it's been a real love to be there,

00:28:27.130 --> 00:28:31.029
to see fulfillment, what God is doing. And he's

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filling this land, different prophecies. Amos

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9, 14, they shall plant vineyards and drink the

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wine thereof and make gardens and eat the fruit

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thereof. Yes. I challenge you when you come,

00:28:45.859 --> 00:28:48.539
not if you come to Israel, when you come to Israel.

00:28:49.309 --> 00:28:51.970
go to the Shuk and see the fruit that this land

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produces. He's filling this land with fruit,

00:28:54.869 --> 00:28:58.410
not only fruit I believe in the natural, but

00:28:58.410 --> 00:29:00.970
I'm looking for the fruit of the Spirit. And

00:29:00.970 --> 00:29:03.829
I have faith and I have a love that God, you

00:29:03.829 --> 00:29:06.630
didn't bring them this far just to bring them

00:29:06.630 --> 00:29:11.119
into the land. So the Messiah is there. And right

00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:13.480
now he's revealing himself to his people one

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by one. He's doing it. He's doing it. He's doing

00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:19.259
it. But I'm glad to have our front row seat.

00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:21.559
Yes. We see what he's doing. It's fun to watch

00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:25.119
what he's doing. You know, we had another friend

00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:28.920
of ours, and I'll call him Yoni. He was fighting

00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.599
in the Lebanon War, one of the wars up there.

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:35.019
And he told us his personal testimony. He had

00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:37.980
been injured, a RPG, a rocket -propelled grenade

00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:41.380
had hit his Jeep, killed his two other buddies.

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And he was in the hospital for many months, paralyzed

00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:50.700
from the waist down. Could not get up. And finally

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:53.380
the doctor said, Yoni, we can't do anything more

00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:57.009
for you. Send us home. His father was a rabbi

00:29:57.009 --> 00:30:00.609
in the kibbutz where he lived. And he was there.

00:30:01.130 --> 00:30:04.630
He said while he was in the hospital, some Swedish

00:30:04.630 --> 00:30:09.109
people had given him a Bible. And he remembered,

00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:11.549
he said, when I was a child, I got a Bible they

00:30:11.549 --> 00:30:13.490
handed out in the kibbutz, but they had ripped

00:30:13.490 --> 00:30:16.750
half of it apart. And the kid always wondered

00:30:16.750 --> 00:30:20.970
why he only got half the book. Well, they didn't

00:30:20.970 --> 00:30:25.390
have any Torahs. They had gotten whole New Testaments,

00:30:25.390 --> 00:30:28.529
and they ripped those apart. But now he had a

00:30:28.529 --> 00:30:30.869
New Testament and an Old Testament. But he was

00:30:30.869 --> 00:30:35.079
in his room. one night, and he'd been at home

00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:37.660
for a while, and he started reading Isaiah 53.

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:41.559
Oh, my. You will not find that even in the Torah

00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.920
readings. They skip over that. Some rabbis might

00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.119
say Isaiah 53 applies to the nation of Israel.

00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.059
Others will say, and we just don't want to deal

00:30:51.059 --> 00:30:53.759
with that, and they move on. But he read Isaiah

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:57.859
53, and while he was reading it, he saw this

00:30:57.859 --> 00:31:00.900
light come out of the Bible. All of a sudden

00:31:00.900 --> 00:31:03.700
it was a light and turned into the face of Jesus.

00:31:03.779 --> 00:31:07.859
And he saw Jesus beaten and just as described

00:31:07.859 --> 00:31:11.640
on the page. But then the light got bigger and

00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.059
the glorious form of Jesus appeared by his bedside,

00:31:15.099 --> 00:31:18.589
the whole form. Jesus reached out with his hand,

00:31:18.690 --> 00:31:23.029
touched him and healed him. Wow. Sovereignly

00:31:23.029 --> 00:31:26.230
healed him. And he got out and we hear these

00:31:26.230 --> 00:31:28.710
testimonies all the time. Yeah. And he said,

00:31:28.750 --> 00:31:31.509
I jumped up out of bed yelling. I've healed.

00:31:31.650 --> 00:31:34.109
I've been healed. Look at me. Jesus healed me.

00:31:34.190 --> 00:31:37.190
Jesus healed me. I've been healed by Yeshua.

00:31:37.470 --> 00:31:42.190
Yes. Oh, my. About 2, 3 o 'clock in the morning.

00:31:42.329 --> 00:31:46.950
Oh, my. And he created such a ruckus in the house.

00:31:47.390 --> 00:31:50.230
Nobody was celebrating that he was healed. No.

00:31:50.269 --> 00:31:53.750
But the word was that if you don't. Take back

00:31:53.750 --> 00:31:57.069
what you've said, then you must leave. And that

00:31:57.069 --> 00:31:59.849
don't say this name and such. And rightfully,

00:31:59.950 --> 00:32:02.890
many of the Jews remember the Holocaust. They

00:32:02.890 --> 00:32:05.650
blame it on the Christians. They remember the

00:32:05.650 --> 00:32:08.589
Inquisition. Blame it on the Christians. And

00:32:08.589 --> 00:32:11.490
they persecuted people. So I could see that.

00:32:11.589 --> 00:32:15.670
He said, how can I take this back? I saw. From

00:32:15.670 --> 00:32:18.589
my own eyes. And so after three days, he had

00:32:18.589 --> 00:32:21.230
to leave his house, and they sat Sheva for him.

00:32:21.349 --> 00:32:24.789
And that means they considered him dead. Yes,

00:32:24.789 --> 00:32:28.529
they did. Oh, wow. Sheva means seven. Yeah, you

00:32:28.529 --> 00:32:31.549
sit seven days after someone passes away. That's

00:32:31.549 --> 00:32:35.529
how you remember the one that is now dead. You're

00:32:35.529 --> 00:32:38.529
now dead. Wow. And he went on to have a different

00:32:38.529 --> 00:32:43.710
career with other places. Finally, after many

00:32:43.710 --> 00:32:46.869
years, he was able to come back, and the family

00:32:46.869 --> 00:32:49.450
had received him back again. Glory to God. I'm

00:32:49.450 --> 00:32:52.230
not sure where they are in the midst of believers,

00:32:52.589 --> 00:32:56.089
but sometimes it takes the working of miracles

00:32:56.089 --> 00:33:00.230
as well as the Word, as well as worship. Amen.

00:33:00.289 --> 00:33:03.730
I just see other people that I know that we hear

00:33:03.730 --> 00:33:07.990
a lot of stories that I don't often say too much

00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:12.089
just to. keep a low profile, but it is a land

00:33:12.089 --> 00:33:15.289
of miracles. Absolutely. And another thing is

00:33:15.289 --> 00:33:18.670
that this is in Amos 9 .14, another scripture,

00:33:18.990 --> 00:33:22.529
I will bring again the captivity of my people

00:33:22.529 --> 00:33:25.690
that were exiled, and they shall build away cities

00:33:25.690 --> 00:33:29.609
and inhabit them. Amen. We're seeing this nation

00:33:29.609 --> 00:33:33.769
is so young to see not only the way cities being

00:33:33.769 --> 00:33:38.250
rebuilt. But the older ones being new cities

00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:40.950
established and the other ones being rebuilt,

00:33:41.150 --> 00:33:45.250
it's just something else, a miracle that you

00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:49.150
see happening. So the way cities are being rebuilt.

00:33:49.329 --> 00:33:52.910
And then one of the promises, I love Amos, go

00:33:52.910 --> 00:33:56.869
read Amos in there, said that I will plant them

00:33:56.869 --> 00:33:59.710
on their land and they shall what? No more be

00:33:59.710 --> 00:34:03.839
pulled up. No more be pulled up. You know, living

00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:06.859
in this land, we hear so much from the other

00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:11.500
side that Israel doesn't belong there. And Israel

00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:14.639
has no right to this land. Yeah, they left. They

00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:18.400
left and they were exiled. I want to share from

00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:23.800
the Koran as well in Surah Al -Ma'dah 5, 20 and

00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:28.130
21. It said, O my people, enter the holy land

00:34:28.130 --> 00:34:30.630
which Allah has assigned to you, and do not turn

00:34:30.630 --> 00:34:33.889
back. That this land was assigned. Even the Quran

00:34:33.889 --> 00:34:38.699
says that. Assigned to whom? The Jews. The Koran

00:34:38.699 --> 00:34:40.719
is saying it's the Jews. Yes, it's in the Koran.

00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.840
I have a surah right there. Wow, wow, wow. But,

00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:46.420
you know, as in anything else, oh, no, no, that

00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:49.719
doesn't apply. Right. It's been, it just meant

00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.800
they have to become Muslim first. You know, make

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.400
all sorts of excuses. So I like that they have

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.039
been called back and that God has established

00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:05.079
them, giving them this land. And even though

00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:10.070
the other side, wants to they say well forget

00:35:10.070 --> 00:35:12.250
that we're nation building we're going to build

00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:14.329
our own nation and the jews got to go back to

00:35:14.329 --> 00:35:17.289
where they were okay so they want to delegitimize

00:35:17.289 --> 00:35:20.369
israel being there right and so we're in the

00:35:20.369 --> 00:35:23.989
midst of that they want to dehumanize those that

00:35:23.989 --> 00:35:27.750
are there and demonize and even destroy everything

00:35:27.750 --> 00:35:31.030
about that yeah but we have an eternal promise

00:35:31.710 --> 00:35:34.710
God has brought them back to the land, even from

00:35:34.710 --> 00:35:38.429
ever since Abraham's days. And I believe that

00:35:38.429 --> 00:35:42.530
this, too, is going to be in the days to come

00:35:42.530 --> 00:35:45.449
that we'll see, even now that we're seeing that's

00:35:45.449 --> 00:35:49.309
happening as Israel's expanding and watching

00:35:49.309 --> 00:35:52.730
over the Druze up in Syria and establishing outposts

00:35:52.730 --> 00:35:56.030
in Lebanon and even in Gaza. But, you know, it

00:35:56.030 --> 00:36:00.099
isn't just one. scripture alone right in ezekiel

00:36:00.099 --> 00:36:04.219
37 12 i will bring you back to the land of israel

00:36:04.219 --> 00:36:07.940
yep this is a promised land promised to the jewish

00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:11.900
people right promise chosen and i'll put my spirit

00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:14.679
in you and you shall live i'm waiting for that

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:18.380
let's get excited that's not just from a millennium

00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:23.519
ezekiel 37 14 i shall put my spirit in you and

00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:29.190
you shall live amen live So these are some of

00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:32.610
the close promises I keep to my heart, that God

00:36:32.610 --> 00:36:35.190
is working in this nation. It's taking a little

00:36:35.190 --> 00:36:37.610
longer than I'd like to see. I'm not getting

00:36:37.610 --> 00:36:41.550
any younger. But, you know, it's kind of like

00:36:41.550 --> 00:36:43.550
what Jesus said, when you put a little leaven

00:36:43.550 --> 00:36:45.929
or yeast in the bread, how it works. I don't

00:36:45.929 --> 00:36:49.210
know, but it rises up. And I think even through

00:36:49.210 --> 00:36:52.869
the misery of this war, we are going to see.

00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:57.440
great changes coming back that people can change

00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:03.300
and find Jesus as well. Also, Isaiah 35, I can't

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:06.280
forget that, said the desert shall blossom. Oh,

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:09.179
yes. The desert shall blossom. We look about

00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:11.739
not only the natural desert, because some two

00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:15.460
-thirds of Israel is desert. And I just heard

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:17.079
the other day they're going to build a new airport

00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:21.179
way down south, 80 miles from Tel Aviv, down

00:37:21.179 --> 00:37:24.880
close to the border of Gaza and Egypt. I think

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.340
Israel has been forced to, in the days earlier,

00:37:28.460 --> 00:37:31.280
that place wasn't very well settled. Everybody

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:35.329
went to Tel Aviv. Nobody wanted to go with Ben

00:37:35.329 --> 00:37:38.590
Gurion's vision of let's go into the desert and

00:37:38.590 --> 00:37:41.789
make this land produce. But now they're going

00:37:41.789 --> 00:37:43.929
to build an airport. And I think it's going to

00:37:43.929 --> 00:37:47.369
be 80 ,000 people used to build this airport,

00:37:47.590 --> 00:37:52.170
an international airport. But it will also build

00:37:52.170 --> 00:37:56.530
up that part of the nation that is. isolated.

00:37:56.630 --> 00:38:00.210
And as a strong point, I've seen that in many

00:38:00.210 --> 00:38:04.510
of the other places close to Palestinian territories

00:38:04.510 --> 00:38:08.809
and stuff, Israel's built strongholds that you're

00:38:08.809 --> 00:38:12.010
not going to come across here. You know, when

00:38:12.010 --> 00:38:14.710
we were down in, when Ben -Gurion gave his speech

00:38:14.710 --> 00:38:19.590
in 1948 in Tel Aviv, the building where that

00:38:19.590 --> 00:38:22.750
happened, Independence Hall, they had a picture

00:38:22.750 --> 00:38:25.710
on the wall when you walk in of about Well, like

00:38:25.710 --> 00:38:29.130
30, 40 people all had shovels in their hands

00:38:29.130 --> 00:38:32.190
to start building Tel Aviv. Yeah, they were turning

00:38:32.190 --> 00:38:34.590
over the earth. Turning the earth over, and that's

00:38:34.590 --> 00:38:35.829
where it started. So that they could start the

00:38:35.829 --> 00:38:38.929
city. Wow. On the sand dunes. On the sand dunes,

00:38:38.929 --> 00:38:42.590
they built Tel Aviv. Yeah, that's amazing. Wow,

00:38:42.590 --> 00:38:46.090
that's astounding. Yeah. Yeah. I think one of

00:38:46.090 --> 00:38:48.789
the other things that we forgot was many years,

00:38:48.949 --> 00:38:52.829
there was a man called Hayseed. Oh, yes. He was

00:38:52.829 --> 00:38:56.909
always looking for oil. Yes. And he had, I forget

00:38:56.909 --> 00:38:59.389
his name, his company, Zion or one of them. I

00:38:59.389 --> 00:39:01.670
don't remember. I don't remember. But not many

00:39:01.670 --> 00:39:05.150
years ago, Israel discovered vast amounts of

00:39:05.150 --> 00:39:08.630
oil in the shallow waters just off the shore.

00:39:08.829 --> 00:39:12.489
And there's a prophecy in Deuteronomy 33, 24,

00:39:12.849 --> 00:39:15.869
that Asher shall dip his foot in oil. That's

00:39:15.869 --> 00:39:19.030
right. And many people, well, that's olive oil

00:39:19.030 --> 00:39:24.510
or that is some other different. type of oil

00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:28.119
in there that we get but they've found Massive

00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:30.980
amounts of oil that they're slowly developing,

00:39:31.179 --> 00:39:34.380
and that's another prophecy that's come to pass.

00:39:34.619 --> 00:39:38.900
So we thank God that not only they're in the

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:42.500
spirit and in the natural, it's a wonderful place

00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:45.920
to be. I encourage everyone, don't listen to

00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.260
everything in the news, but come on the next

00:39:49.260 --> 00:39:51.719
tour that Phil and Sharon are going to bring

00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:56.239
on and see what God is doing and what the Lord

00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:59.420
has done. Yes. Amen. What are good news sources

00:39:59.420 --> 00:40:01.900
people can listen to out there where they're

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:07.039
not going to get biased news? I listen to Amir

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:11.860
Savati, and that is on Telegram. Yes, the Telegram

00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:17.019
app. I also go to some of the Israeli sites on

00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:23.650
the Internet, i24news .com. I think Mary Lois

00:40:23.650 --> 00:40:25.530
has a couple of sites. I can't remember right

00:40:25.530 --> 00:40:27.989
now. We'll add that to the show notes when we

00:40:27.989 --> 00:40:32.570
get that from her. Yeah. And then we have IsraelNationalNews

00:40:32.570 --> 00:40:39.070
.com. And J -Post, J -Post .com. So, of course,

00:40:39.130 --> 00:40:43.269
as we come, just not only on the Internet, but

00:40:43.269 --> 00:40:46.679
there's other sources you can find. I think the

00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.539
best one is to grab the hold of a Jew, ask him

00:40:49.539 --> 00:40:54.119
about his land. And read the Bible. Read the

00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:56.500
Bible. Yes. How did I forget that? The Bible

00:40:56.500 --> 00:40:59.659
tells you a whole lot of news that, and especially

00:40:59.659 --> 00:41:03.960
if you do read the Bible and you get quiet before

00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.179
the Lord, like you were describing, you get so

00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:08.800
quiet that you can hear that still small voice.

00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.380
He will interpret scripture for you that you

00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:15.840
may have read it a hundred times. And all of

00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.320
a sudden, there's fresh revelation on it, particularly

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:23.500
about his people and his land. Amen. Wow, okay.

00:41:23.619 --> 00:41:25.780
So I think it's been my privilege over the years

00:41:25.780 --> 00:41:31.179
to meet many souls, not only Christian. And we

00:41:31.179 --> 00:41:33.440
don't call people Christian in Israel because

00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:37.599
there's so few. We're believers. And I love that

00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.679
term. So we're believers in Yeshua. You can run

00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:43.840
into Yeshua, too. He's still the light of the

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.940
world. He's still making house calls. Yes, hallelujah.

00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:51.940
Especially in that land. I will never forget

00:41:51.940 --> 00:41:56.239
to the end of my days that I had an Emmaus encounter

00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:00.559
with the Lord. Mary Lawson and I did. And I've

00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:03.150
heard of people in different places. We were

00:42:03.150 --> 00:42:05.650
down in Jericho, which is an Arab city, but it

00:42:05.650 --> 00:42:09.530
used to be a city of priests. Yes. And many wells

00:42:09.530 --> 00:42:12.230
are there and water. It's a well -watered garden,

00:42:12.289 --> 00:42:17.289
as it were. We were by the tree of Sycamore Tree.

00:42:17.590 --> 00:42:19.590
There's a little sign there that says this is

00:42:19.590 --> 00:42:22.849
the actual tree that Zacchaeus climbed up. And,

00:42:22.849 --> 00:42:25.969
you know, people in the car said, well, you think

00:42:25.969 --> 00:42:29.510
that's the real tree? And I go, oh, I don't know.

00:42:29.570 --> 00:42:32.659
It doesn't look like it's 2 ,000 years old. But

00:42:32.659 --> 00:42:35.380
I know Jesus must have passed very close to here.

00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.679
And that very microsecond that I said that, the

00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:43.099
whole car was filled with light, such an intense

00:42:43.099 --> 00:42:46.900
light. We were brought into the light. It felt

00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:49.539
like our very beings were sucked into the light.

00:42:49.699 --> 00:42:52.800
Wow. And it's an experience I'll never forget,

00:42:52.900 --> 00:42:56.039
that we were just into the greater light, and

00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:58.579
then it was like it exploded, and we just came

00:42:58.579 --> 00:43:00.880
into the light, and all our breaths came out

00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.039
at the same time. Just, oh, like that. And I

00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:07.400
heard, I love it. And you hear the still, soft

00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:09.659
voice. The Lord said, I'm still passing by here.

00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:13.280
Amen. So, you know, sometimes you go, oh, I wish

00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.489
that could happen to me, Gene. But, you know,

00:43:15.530 --> 00:43:18.769
Jesus is not restricted to Jericho. Wherever

00:43:18.769 --> 00:43:21.449
two or three are gathered, I am there. Also,

00:43:21.710 --> 00:43:25.110
that you could run into him in your bedroom tonight.

00:43:25.610 --> 00:43:29.050
But also, we are people of faith. And if you

00:43:29.050 --> 00:43:31.989
never, ever have an encounter like I did, you

00:43:31.989 --> 00:43:35.530
know, he's there. He is wherever we are. If you

00:43:35.530 --> 00:43:38.170
can hear his still, soft voice, you'll never

00:43:38.170 --> 00:43:40.230
be lonely. You'll know that he said he's not

00:43:40.230 --> 00:43:42.570
going to leave you an orphan. And we serve an

00:43:42.570 --> 00:43:46.320
awesome God. And whether you come to Israel or

00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.079
not, come to Jesus first. Love the Lord. Ask

00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.840
him to fill you fully as Holy Spirit. Yes. With

00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.179
evidence and speaking in tongues. Yes. You have

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:59.699
the fire of God within you. And what else do

00:43:59.699 --> 00:44:02.500
you need more than fellowship and the love of

00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:05.239
the Lord? Beautiful. And he'll bring you into

00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:14.809
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