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Turn your Bibles, if you will, to Genesis chapter 15.

Genesis 15.

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I got to tell you, I've never been more grateful, more passionate about Jesus in my entire life than I am right now.

And it's because my eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.

I have lived in the holy city.

I have spoken with God's people, Israel.

with their rabbis, with Orthodox Jews, with Messianic Jews, with secular Jews, and of course, Arabs and Palestinians as well.

I've stood on Mount Moriah where Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac, but instead discovered the truth of God's salvation.

I escalated the mountain of temptation where Jesus defeated the evil one with words of truth found in scripture.

I went to Shiloh, or Shiloh as you would hear it, where God first tabernacled among his people.

Through archaeological excavation, they have discovered the first tabernacle, not the temple, the tabernacle.

I have stood at the Dome of the Rock, where the Ark of the Covenant is said to have dwelled.

In some minds, it's still there, far beneath, away from mankind.

I have prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed.

I have taught on the Mount of Olives, where Jesus taught, and I have walked the Via Dolorosa, the very path Jesus walked on his way to the cross.

But now, for the first time in my life, I've begun to understand the beauty and the wonder and the complexity of the city of Jerusalem, the city of God, and the new Jerusalem that will one day come down out of the heavens, where God will be our God and we will be his people and there will be no more mourning, crying, or pain.

But to fully understand all this, you have to understand what happens all the way back in the first book of the Bible in Genesis 15.

It is a wonderful event.

Abraham is doubting that God is going to fulfill his promise.

So he asked God for a sign.

In the early part of Genesis 15, which is a short chapter, God enters into a covenant ratification ceremony with Abraham.

And he tells Abraham to go and get some animals and to basically cut them in half and to place them in rows.

And this is an Old Testament covenant ceremony.

Because what you would do is if a king and a servant entered into a covenant, the servant, never the king, the servant would walk through or between the pieces in a way that, remember, this is a storytelling culture.

This is a demonstration culture, not necessarily a word culture, to demonstrate that if I don't keep the part of the covenant that I'm giving you, by walking between the pieces, you're saying, may I be cut off like these animals were cut off.

May I be cut off from the land of the living.

May I end up like these animals, cut in two, dead.

useless in ruin.

In Genesis 15, when God meets with Abraham, guess what he does?

He enters into a covenant ratification ceremony only instead of having Abraham walk between the pieces.

God causes Abraham to fall in kind of a sleep and God himself, and it's kind of a smoking pot with smoke coming up, but the presence of the Lord is clear.

God himself walks between the pieces.

The king would never do that.

The servant may be, the king not.

But here is God saying this to Abraham.

If I don't keep my covenant to you, may I be cut off from the land of the living.

May I be brought to ruin.

And so the question is back in Genesis 15, what covenant did God enter into with Abraham?

Let me read it to you.

In Genesis 15, on that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham and said to your descendants, I give this land.

From the Wadi of Egypt to the great river the Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadamites, Hittites, Perizzites, Raphiites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.

Now, if you look at a map today, the land that God promises to Abraham and his descendants looks like this today.

It's quite a large territory.

Now, I need to make sure that you and I understand this biblical prophecy.

Who dwelled in the land before God gave it to the Israelites?

And the answer is the Philistines and the Amalekites.

So the Amalekites are descendants of Esau who sold his birthright for a bowl of soup.

There are also the descendants of Haman that you'll find in the Esther story who tried to commit the first genocide against the people of God.

The descendants of Esau of Haman are called the Amalekites.

So when God chose this land to give to Abraham, did he do it arbitrarily?

No, he did it because the Amalekites were sacrificing their children on the altars of Molech and God had been patient for generations.

And finally he said, I'm going to bring judgment.

on the Amalekites, and I'm going to bring Israel in, and I'm going to give them this land.

So God takes the land away from the Amalekites and gives it to Abraham's descendants.

And God says, this is the land I promised Abraham.

In other words, I am going to enter into a irrevocable covenant with Abraham, and I will never break it.

Although you break it, I will not break my word, my covenant with you.

And so even though there are seasons where Israel disobeys, God brings in the Babylonians and now they're exiled.

They sin and God brings in the Assyrians.

They sin, that is Israel.

God brings in the Romans.

They sin and God brings in the Greeks.

But each time he brings them in, he always has one of his prophets say that Israel will ultimately return to the land that he swore to his forefathers, Abraham.

So in Jeremiah 29, we read this in verse 10.

This is what the Lord says, when 70 years are completed for Babylon.

I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Then you will call on me and come to me and pray, and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity.

I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

Now, who's this promise to?

Christians?

No, it's the Jews.

Now, does it apply to Christians?

Absolutely.

So it has a dual contextualization here.

God has a hope and a plan for us, and he has plans to prosper us, but the original promise is given to the people of Israel, a promise that is part of the covenant.

And then we go to Ezekiel 37, a very good passage.

This is what the sovereign Lord says.

I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.

I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.

I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel.

There will be one king over all of them, and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them.

They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Now, if you notice something, that's not happened yet.

The history of Israel is one of blessing and then condemnation because of the very refusal to live by the precepts that God had outlined for them.

And yet, all the way back in Genesis 15, God promises to fulfill his promises.

And there are many who believe, now this is where we get into, as I've said before, when you study Revelation, you study in times, it's not easy for anybody.

And if you know me, I've always told you, nobody has all the answers.

But I can tell you this.

After being there for almost six weeks, I have been changed.

Because I just didn't sit around.

I wanted to interview Orthodox Jews, Hasidic Jews, Messianic Jews, Palestinians, Arabs.

I went into places that most Americans cannot go in with police escorts.

It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And yet, an astounding thing as well.

There are many who believe that in 1948, The Jews began returning, according to the promise of God, to the land of Israel.

So I want to look at a timeline really quickly.

So we printed this out for you.

So we're going all the way back to 3300 BC, before Christ.

And that's the Canaanite period, when they were sacrificing their babies on the altar of Molech.

The first temple period, Solomon builds the temple.

And now the children of Israel have come into the promised land.

Then the second temple period, which was given, the orders were given to Zerubbabel to build the second temple.

And then most of us are familiar with what happens next.

Then we arrive to the time of Jesus and the Romans come in and now they occupy the land.

Remember, that is the time in which the Christ child is born.

But then the Byzantine period comes, and then the early Islamic period.

So right around here is when Muhammad is born, and Muhammad in Islam begins to grow.

So now they come in to the promised land.

And again, the Jews, the Israelites, live under occupation.

But then we have the Crusader period, where the Crusades believe they need to take back the land.

So the Crusaders and those in Islam are fighting one another for possession of the land, because both believe that it's holy.

that it has incredible significance.

Then you've got a bunch of, basically, you've got Arabs, and you have Islam in different sects ruling the land until you come to the Ottoman period.

This is a very powerful empire that lasts for quite a long time.

And then that lasts all the way up.

We're still talking about the same property, the same piece of land.

That lasts all the way up.

1917, you have the British Mandate.

The British come in, defeat the Turks, defeat the Ottoman Empire.

And now, well, they had help.

But the British Mandate period, they began to rule.

this land that God had promised Israel in the promised land.

Okay?

Now, the British mandate, when they came in, they sectioned off the land that I'll explain in a moment.

And then in 1948, after World War II, and the Jews were basically almost wiped out, 6 million killed in the Holocaust, they made their way back to a place of Israel that was quite desolate, but they came back to Israel because they felt like the European nations would no longer accept them, and they decided that they would return home.

Now, what did Israel look like under the British mandate?

I have another just quick map for you.

This is what it looked like.

So they still were basically in that part of the land from the river to the sea.

You've heard that lately, haven't you?

From the Jordan to the Mediterranean.

Now, let me, we talked about truth and I could have skipped that part.

But the reason I did that, let me tell you now what is objectively true.

That most of us are never told.

And I'm not sure why the media hides these things from us.

I don't know the answer to that yet.

The fact that they do and the fact that they misrepresent what is actually going on there is a reality.

Number one, Arabs, Jews, and Christians lived together in the land for many, many years.

Until 1930, the term Palestinian referred to Jews.

Muslims and Christians living peacefully together in the land.

The land was named Palestine by Hadrian following the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD.

So the name until 1930 and beyond actually represented all the peoples of the land, Jews, Christians, Arabs, and everybody else who lived.

But prior to the Second World War, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj, Amin al-Hussein led an extreme Arab separatist movement.

So he went so far as to meet with Adolf Hitler.

When he heard that Adolf Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Haj Amin al-Hussein wanted to be involved as well.

Now the question is why?

If Christians, Jews, and Arabs lived peacefully in the land together up until 1930, what happened?

Okay, you're going to have to...

Think for a bit.

I'm going to try to explain this in about 10 minutes.

Let me first use the example.

In Rwanda, when the Hutus decided to exterminate the Tutsis, it didn't just happen overnight.

You can actually trace it all the way back when the Belgians came into Rwanda and decided that the Tutsis were taller and better looking than the Hutus.

So that the Tutsis should be the kings and the ones in authority and in charge.

Well, if you're a Hutu, that's going to tick you off, especially since the Tutsis are only 10% of the population.

So it just festered over years and years of time until finally there's enough generation of Hutus that got tired of it.

And they decided through propaganda to convince a whole generation of youth that Tutsis are cockroaches and need to be exterminated once and for all.

There is something similar that is happening between the Arabs and the Jews.

You had two underlying worldviews.

The Jews believe that God has called them to live separate lives and to live very religious lives.

And I saw that, you know, there are things that you see in Jerusalem that haven't changed for hundreds and hundreds of years.

They are extremely religious people.

Many of the men, the Orthodox Jews, Hasidic Jews.

spend their entire lives getting up every day, going to the synagogue, reading the Torah on the way, and they spend the morning.

You think about how committed they are.

They spend the morning in prayer.

Because in their minds, what's more important than reading the Word of God?

And the Torah is the Word of God.

That's the first five books of the Bible.

They keep the laws you find in the Mosaic Code in Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

They wear the phylacteries, Scripture verses on their forehead and on their wrists, symbolizing they're going to think the thoughts of God and do the deeds of God.

They keep the Sabbath.

So it was uncanny how on Saturday, sorry, on Friday at 5 o'clock, everything closes.

It reminds me of Sunday in my little hometown of Elizabethan when nothing was open.

And you couldn't buy beer, especially if anything was open, you couldn't sell beer on Sunday.

Well, in Jerusalem, actually not just Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, all throughout Israel, everything just stops at five o'clock.

Nobody's on the street.

And you know where they are?

They're in their homes with their families, praying blessings over their children and having a meal together that symbolizes God's promises to them.

I got to take part in a Shabbat and I got to tell you, it was a great spiritual experience.

And I thought, man, what happened to we Christians?

Why do we not stop everything and bless our children and pray together and read God's word?

My goodness, it's everything I can do to get most of you to church a couple of times a month.

But the point is that the Orthodox Jew or the Jew, and especially the secular Jew, even though they are religious, they have no real passion to convert the world to Judaism.

You understand?

And they believe that Messiah will come someday, but that he will only come when the nation of Israel is truly holy and righteous.

So they want to raise an entire generation that reads and studies the Torah and follows the laws of the first five books of the Bible.

And they believe when they do that, it's up to them.

They're controlling the coming of Messiah at the end.

And the Messiah will stand on the Temple Mount.

Now, let's talk about the Arabs.

Listen carefully now, because I'm hoping you guys will put this on YouTube and just send it out everywhere you can.

Listen, being Muslim and Arab is not the same thing.

Most of the world's Muslims live in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh.

However, a lot of Arabs are indeed Muslims.

Yet there is another distinction.

that very few Americans understand.

You have two different groups.

You have Muslims and you have Islamists.

And they are very different.

Most Muslims are moderate around the world.

There are people who have been converted to Islam.

They're quite happy to go about their everyday lives.

They engage in the five pillars of Islam and they have no motivation to hurt anybody.

But then you have the Islamists and they're very different.

They believe in Sharia law.

that it trumps all other laws, that the moral code of Islam is outlined in the Quran.

Slavery, wife-beating, heavy taxation of Christians and Jews living in Muslim lands, and the killing of Muslims who convert to another faith.

It's a mistake to assume that Muslims believe this.

There's a difference between Muslims and Islamists, and it's important that you know that distinction.

And under Sharia law or Islamists, they believe that everyone ultimately is born a Muslim.

Everybody, no matter where you live.

And you are not a Muslim.

If you are not a Muslim now, you're living in disobedience to Allah.

Jihad then is the struggle against this rebellion.

Jihad is clearly communicated in the Quran and required of all Muslims, according to Islamists.

But most Muslims think of jihad as a personal struggle.

against the sin in their lives.

It has nothing to do with warfare.

But Islamists believe that this is a violent warfare against all unbelievers or infidels, primarily of which are Jews and Christians.

Now, why is that important?

Because Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran are Islamists.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran are Islamists.

Nothing.

Not even the well-being of the Gazans it rules must be allowed to stand in the way of exterminating the Jews.

And as a result, Gazans have suffered dramatically under the rule of Hamas because Islamists do not believe that life is sacred.

Only jihad is sacred and anyone who does not conform must die.

Hamas is so filled with hate for the heathen, the Christians and the Jews, any non-Muslim.

that they are actually digging up water pipes in Gaza to make weapons, even at the cost of clean drinking water for their own citizens.

This underlying current is always there.

Does every Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian believe this?

Of course not.

Do Hamas, Hezbollah...

Iran and millions of Palestinians, Arabs, and Islamists believe this?

Absolutely.

And they're everywhere, and you never know who they are.

The means always justifies the ends, always.

Lying is a virtue if it achieves the goal.

Deception is a primary weapon in the Jerusalem walls.

And we're going to talk about this in a moment.

We decided, Robin, Sian and I decided, we're not going to stay outside the city.

We're going to live inside the city walls.

We're going to experience life.

We're going to talk to people.

We're going to hear what's going on.

So in the city walls, the wall of the city of Jerusalem, beside the Tower of David, you have the Armenian quarter, the Christian quarter, the Jewish quarter, and the Muslim quarter.

So within these walls, you have all of these people living together.

The problem is...

that the Islamist who live inside the city threatens even the Muslim if he or she decides to sell their place to anybody other than a Muslim because they ultimately want to take over the city of Jerusalem.

So if you own property and you're a Muslim and you sell it to a Jew, they kill you, okay?

And they murder your family.

Why is all this important?

How did we get here?

Are we in the last days?

At the end of World War II, stay with me here, a war that saw the extermination of six million Jews.

Because the Jews felt unsafe, they wanted to come back to the land.

But as we showed previously, British control Palestine.

Jews, Christians, and Arabs, and Muslims.

When I say Palestine, right now I'm referring to Jews, Christians, Arabs, and Muslims.

But the British did not want mass immigration.

Not because they were afraid of the Jews.

It's just because things were going well.

And they didn't feel like mass immigration would be productive.

However, after the war, they realized that Israel had a right to return to the land.

So in 1947, the United Nations, and this is important.

This is what the media doesn't tell you.

The United Nations developed a plan to...

Take this region and designate two separate states, one Arab, one Jewish.

Two states.

1948, 1947.

Israel fully embraced it, wanting to live at peace with their neighbors.

The Arab faction totally rejected it.

They did so again in 1967, in 2000, and 2008.

Four times they've been offered a state, four times they said no.

And here's why.

By the way, it was Yasser Arafat, if you're my age, you'll remember that name, who formed what is now called the Palestinian Authority.

And he insisted that the term Palestinian now, going forward, be used only to refer to the Arabs, no longer to Jews, Christians, Muslims, and anybody else.

Now the term must refer only to the Arabs who live in the land of Israel.

The reason why?

He was a Zalammist.

His desire ultimately was to eradicate the Jews from humanity because they're infidels.

So he would shake hands at the United Nations, making a peace treaty, and then go to do the exact opposite thing.

When the Jews began returning home after the Holocaust, The land was so desolate.

We're going back to 1867 when Mark Twain visited, and he described it as a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land.

But when Israel started coming back to the land, they desired to live with Christians and Arabs in peace and harmony.

Nobody's land was taken from them.

The land had already been carved up in 1922.

Clear boundaries had been established and three groups lived in peace.

So as Israel began returning to the land, the physical landscape began to change.

Because if you know anything about Israel, it's desert.

But suddenly with advancement in water technology, particularly irrigation, the ability to use even brackish water for agriculture, this dry and dusty land began to change.

Small towns grew into major cities.

New neighborhoods began to spill out from existing conurbations.

And then theaters, schools, newspapers, radio stations, everything that makes communities, communities began to emerge.

Now here's the important part.

In 1932, the Zionists, now do you know what that means?

What is a Zionist?

A Zionist is someone who simply believes that God promised the land to Israel.

That's what a Zionist is.

However, Zionists have been taught by God himself, the belief is, to live at peace with all people in the land.

That's important.

So in 1932, the Zionist leader, who was not very religious, David Ben-Gurion, approached the Arab leaders suggesting two mutual cooperating entities.

Let's live together.

You have authority.

We have authority.

This is your part.

This is our part.

And they totally, that is the Arab nation, rejected it.

In 1937, the British then proposed a two-state solution, and they gave the Arabs the majority of the land.

And the Zionists accepted it.

The Arabs rejected it because they don't want to share the land.

They don't want the majority part of the land.

They want all of the land.

They want the extermination because they are Islamists of Israel.

In 1947, the UN voted for the establishment of a two-state solution.

The Zionists accepted.

The Arabs flat out rejected.

And even today, if you talk to Jews, they want to share the land.

They want everyone to be involved in the land.

So here's what's really going on in Israel today that the news will never tell you.

Are Arabs allowed to serve in the government?

Yes, absolutely.

In fact, since the first elections were held in 1949.

Is there an effort to ensure that all citizens of Israel are represented in the government?

Absolutely.

Are there any Muslims in the IDF?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's not Muslim.

It's not Arabs.

It's Islamists.

And there's a difference.

Do non-Jews have the right to vote in local and national elections?

Absolutely.

Wait a minute.

Well, Pastor Jeff, then why do we hear all these reports about how the Jews are oppressing the Arabs and the Palestinians?

Here's what's happening.

Here's why there are walls.

So after the Six-Day War, do you know about the Six-Day War?

It's when the surrounding nations basically tried to come in and eradicate Israel.

I'll talk about that in a second.

But while Israel wants to live at peace with its neighbors, because there were no boundaries and no safeguards, Palestinians kept coming over just like October 7th in places where there were heavy populations of Jews and just murdering them.

Now, I want you to think about something.

Just for a minute, what would you do?

If Canadians, if there's any Canadians in the room, I'm sorry.

What would you do if Canadians just decided they don't like Americans and they started coming over the border into Montana and raping and killing and murdering men, women, and children?

What do you think America should do about that?

Do you think they should put up a wall and start governing who comes across and to make sure that terrorists aren't coming across?

But if they did that, the world would say, you're erecting a wall.

You're racist.

See, that's the problem.

Israel has to protect its citizens.

Jews are not, listen now, everyday Jews are not killing everyday Arabs or everyday Palestinians.

The only guard that you will see all throughout Israel is not...

to keep Israel out of Palestinian territory, but to keep Palestinians for just coming into Israeli shops and murdering people through suicide bombs or just shooting.

We actually had a lunch where the lady told us not too long ago, a guy just walked in and just murdered four employees just because they were Jews.

Only Jewish villages have to be protected and guarded.

Jews are not killing Arabs or Palestinians.

Palestinian Islamists through suicide bombs or events like October 7th, are killing Jews.

And the reason Israel has to put up walls and guards is to restrict Palestinians'ability to kill their people.

That's the responsibility of any government.

As soon as Israel was declared a state in 1967, arid nations surrounded them and sought immediately to destroy them.

Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.

Now, do you know what happened?

It's a miracle.

Israel's I mean, they were outnumbered, outmanned out everything.

And they actually, I mean, people look at this and say, the only way Israel could have won this is probably through a godly intervention.

Sometimes God with his people says this far, no further.

Israel soundly against all odds, against all odds, defeated.

And it captured Sinai, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.

Israel doubled its territory when it was attacked.

And yet what did it do?

It gave it all back.

Why?

Because Jews believe in appeasement in the hopes of peace and prosperity.

But let me tell you what's happening.

Because of what happened in October 7th, this is a significant event in Israel because the secular Jew That is those who aren't religious, which are 90% of Jews.

Did you know that?

They're atheistic.

Now you go to Jerusalem, you've got the religious people.

Most people in Israel don't believe in God.

But you have a movement of about 10,000 that have come to Christ through the work of Messianic Jews.

And they're growing by the day.

But the point I'm making is they truly believe that if they would appease Hamas and Hezbollah, that both would stop attacking.

So now that October 7th happened, the mood in Israel has changed because now even the secular Jew knows appeasement's not working.

Now, I stayed too long, and I finally got out, and I went to London.

And the second day we were there, I went to the Imperial War Museum.

And it's interesting that one of the first displays that you see...

is that Britain and France believed that they could restrain Hitler if they gave him Czechoslovakia.

Hitler promised that if you give me Czechoslovakia and you don't try to inhibit our invasion, then we won't try to take any more.

So they actually believed him.

So to prevent a second world war, they agreed.

They significantly underestimated Hitler.

He played them like a Hawaiian on a ukulele.

Appeasement did not work because Hitler was building an empire.

Today.

So I was allowed to go into places.

So we went to Hebron.

Hebron is a Palestinian section of Israel.

It is flourishing.

250,000 Arabs live here.

80% of the population in Hebron is Palestinian.

And I can tell you, they are in no way oppressed.

Who is oppressed?

The small percentage of Jews who are constantly threatened, verbally abused, and whose children have rocks thrown at them on their way to school.

And every time Israel offers a two-state solution, the Palestinians turn it down.

Why?

Because they don't want a two-state solution.

They're not Muslim, they're Islamists.

They have one goal in mind, and the more you appease them, the more it will encourage them.

Death to the infidels.

Death.

Now, Gaza.

Gaza is 25 miles of underdeveloped Mediterranean coastline.

From 1967 to 2005, Israel had a presence there.

But in 2005, think about this.

Israel handed it over because of world pressure to the Palestinian Authority, and they told all the Jews to get out.

In fact, bulldozed the Jews'homes, their own people, to appease the world.

Okay, we'll get all the Jews out of there.

It's yours.

As soon as they did that, the territory was taken over by Hamas.

They murdered or exiled the leaders of the opposing Fatah party.

No elections have been held in Gaza ever since.

But Pastor Jeff, the IDF is killing civilians.

They are committing war crimes.

Okay, truth bombs.

You want truth?

Here's your truth bomb.

The IDF is not targeting civilians, but it's doing more than any other group in the history of warfare to ensure the survival of civilians.

As they target the leaders of Hamas, They are at the same time feeding the people of Gaza, producing two million loaves of bread a day.

They are delivering clean water to its citizens through its own pipeline.

It has created six field hospitals and two floating hospitals to assist those who are impacted by the war.

Israel is evacuating the ill through the Rafah border crossing and has distributed tents, winter equipment, fuel, and cooking gas.

Israel has been accused of starving Gazan civilians as a method of genocide.

The charge now is known to be false.

Columbia University, of all people, discovered that 290,000 tons of food has been delivered between October 2023 and April 2024, and that three-fourths of the agricultural production ability remains intact.

So that they said, if people are not getting enough food, Hamas theft is the most likely culprit, not the Israelis.

Hamas does not value human life, no human life.

It only values one thing, the extermination of the Jews.

So on October 7th, it comes over, it slaughters babies, it rapes women, it burns families, it targets civilians, and the world is complaining about Israel.

No nation has ever taken the precautions to spare civilian life.

as it attempts to snuff out and destroy the enemy.

That's the truth bomb.

Yes, the IDF uses precision weapons to target military leaders and installations.

And today...

To date, they have sent over 15 million texts, dropped over 9 million pamphlets, and evacuated over 1.5 million Gazan civilians to safe zones.

Why is that important?

Because this is above and beyond what international law requires and more than the United States did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here's the astounding thing.

In Ukraine, Russia is directly targeting civilians.

Where are the anti-Russian protests?

Do you know why it's different?

Because it's the Jews.

Because it's the Jews.

How odd of God to choose the Jews.

And I look at the newspaper reports, and I look at the BBC, and when I was in London, I think, why?

Why are you lying?

It's like you're telling half-truths.

Oh, Israel bombed the hospital and there were kids there.

What they don't tell you is, before they do something like that, they're sending texts, dropping pamphlets, but Hamas knows that Israel values human life, so they surround their generals with men, women, and children.

And if those men, women, and children refuse, they kill them.

How do you defeat an enemy like that?

The Jews were kicked out of Poland because they were too poor.

They were kicked out of Germany because they were too rich.

No matter what they do, they cannot win.

And maybe my wife has the best answer.

She said, you're overthinking this.

It's a spiritual matter.

They are the people of God and the enemy wants to destroy them.

But Jeff, why are so many Palestinians dying in Gaza?

Arabs, do you hear that?

Arabs, not Palestinians, Arabs have found evidence that Hamas kills Palestinians who refuse to act as human shields.

Palestinians are forced to shield the commanders of Hamas.

And the reason is because Hamas knows two things with certainty.

Number one, the Jews value human life and will be cautious.

And two, every time a civilian is killed, Hamas wins the propaganda war in the world.

And that's what they really want.

I'm not saying that Palestinian Arabs are not being killed in this war.

Of course they are.

But when your enemy purposefully places women and children in harm's way in order to win the propaganda war, what are you going to do?

And that's why I've asked some of my friends after telling this, I said, well, what do you want Israel to do?

Stop the war.

You realize if they stop the war, Hamas will regather, re-equip, regroup, and continue to hold the Gazans under their thumb and to use them for their own purposes, which is the genocide of the Jews.

You know, I wondered if I could find anybody who would be honest.

And I did.

Believe it or not, Time Magazine, Jonathan Greenblatt.

wrote this, and it's a long quote, but I think you need to hear it, because this guy's not a believer.

He's not a Christian.

He's just a journalist.

He says, the Hamas massacre that took place over the weekend was not the result of decades of occupation.

Israel left Gaza in 2005, uprooting families and wrenching the country into an impassioned debate along the way.

Not a settler, nor single IDF soldier, nor any type of Israeli personnel has remained in the Gaza Strip.

No.

This massacre was a function of hate, the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form.

It was in years in the making, and just as it took sophisticated military and logistical planning, it also took years of ideological planting, sowing seeds of anti-Semitism.

Indeed, one cannot look at what Hamas did without understanding their thinking about Jews.

Hamas and its co-conspirators in the Muslim world had been vilifying Jews for decades, starting with their founding charter, which is full of anti-Semitic bile.

They constructed an entire architecture of anti-Semitism that spanned the world and spanned spheres from academia to religion, politics, and culture.

There were many people who should have been pushing for a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but instead had adopted an ideology of hate that did not see Jews as worthy of a piece of land or even as equal contestants in a historical struggle.

It saw them as subhuman.

From the pulpits of mosques, To the pages of opeds, to the stands of bookstores across the Arab world, the protocols of the elders of Zion, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and other timeless fictions and hateful works were peddled, updated, and perfected to the point that large swaths of the public stopped seeing Zionists or Israelis or Jews as human long ago.

School children are taught to hate Israel, Jews are demonized as part of the official curriculum, and summer camps involve learning how to fire automatic weapons and kidnap.

Israelis.

Now, I got four seconds and the sermon's supposed to be over.

There's no way that's going to happen.

So you're just going to have to, I want to move over to Jerusalem now because there's a challenge for us.

Jerusalem is an amazing city, folks.

Amazing city.

We actually stayed inside the walls adjacent to the Tower of David in the Armenian Quarter.

The main feature of the city is the Temple Mount.

This is sacred to the Jews because the Temple Mount is where Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac.

It's where the Holy of Holies, as we said previously, once stood.

It's the place where the Orthodox Jews believe Messiah will arrive when he comes.

It's also the place where Solomon's Temple stood, destroyed by the Babylonians in 957 B.C.

This is also the place where the second temple stood between 516 B.C.

and 70 A.D.

but was destroyed by the Roman general Titus, as well as most of the city of Jerusalem.

It's also the place where modern Jews believe the third temple, now stay with me, the third temple will be built and the place of the Messiah will rule and reign over the earth.

In other words, the temple mount is sacred to Israel because it's where Israel meets with God.

But guess what?

Because Israel wants to appease Islam and the Palestinians, it gave up control of the Temple Mount.

So today, the Palestinian Authority controls the Temple Mount and does not want the Jews to come near.

While the Jews control the Western Wall, and here's the rub, everybody's welcome.

Everybody's welcome.

My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

I've got a personal escort.

You say, how did you get all this stuff?

I don't know, God?

I got a personal escort by one of the most famous rabbis in Israel.

His name is Rabbi Glick.

Rabbi Glick has been shot four times because it is against the law of the Palestinian Authority for a Jew to go to the Temple Mount and pray.

So he doesn't do it out loud.

He just moves his mouth.

Now, some of that's been relaxed.

But when it wasn't relaxed, he was shot four times.

Jews cannot pray on the Temple Mount.

but they can go to the Western Wall.

As we exited the Temple Mount, this is so sacred to the Jew that he just began to weep, and he laid down on his face, and he began to pray that one day this would be a place of prayer for all faiths and all nations, because God has committed that the Jews live in peace with the people of the land.

And then he stood up and he sang the Israeli national anthem.

And all these young soldiers stood up.

The respect they have for him is amazing.

I just found it uncanny that Muslims are welcome to Jewish holy sites, but Jews are accosted and threatened if they attempt to attend Muslim holy sites.

What do you do when some sites are holy and sacred to both groups?

What do you do?

Historically, here's what you do.

Israel gives in in order and hopes of peace.

One of the statements that you will hear time and time again when you visit Jerusalem, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Islamists do not want peace.

They want annihilation.

Do you understand that from the river to the sea means genocide of the Jews?

From the Mediterranean to the Jordan, kill them all.

So why does Google and CNN and BBC and MSNBC and Al Jazeera, well, that I could probably answer.

Well, why do they claim that Israel is an occupier and they're oppressive?

Folks, I went to the West Bank.

I got to go.

And there are 450,000 Israeli settlers.

There are 3 million Palestinians who live there.

And the Palestinian Authority rules over this place.

And they've had no elections since 2006.

They're not mistreated by the Israelis.

The Palestinians are flourishing here.

Nice houses.

There's wealth.

But here's what's extremely unfortunate, if not downright evil.

So we were able to go what is called the Mount of Blessing and look down over Shechem.

This is in the West Bank.

And this was hard for me to take.

In the West Bank is a refugee camp.

Hundreds of thousands of people.

It's been there since 1967.

It's governed by the Palestinian Authority And they won't let people leave.

Why?

Because if they let people leave, they won't need the money that United Nations gives every year.

So they keep the people in these walls, and it's become a breeding ground of recruiting terrorists.

The money comes from voluntary contributions of United Nations member states, $600 million in 2020 alone, and the greatest contributor to the Palestinian Authority.

is the United States of America, $343 million every year, which is helping to pay for what is called pay to slay.

Pay to slay is this.

If you are a Palestinian living in this refugee camp and you're willing to strap a bomb to your body and kill a Jew or shoot a Jewish family, they promise you with funding that they get from the United Nations and the Americans, they will take care of your family for the rest of their lives.

Please listen.

There's a deep theological reason that you and I should support Israel in this new war against the new Nazism.

Jews have more title to the land than any other people, but God calls them to share the land in justice.

And that's what they've been trying to do.

This will shock you.

Today, 2 million Arabs are full citizens in Israel.

enjoying political freedoms, world-class education, and health care far more than Arabs enjoy anywhere else in the Arab world.

And Hamas wants all of this destroyed.

Now, because of time, I'm going to have to summarize the rest of the sermon.

I got to interview Orthodox Jews.

I got to interview Messianic Jews, Hasidic Jews.

I got to interview Palestinians, Arabs.

When you go to Israel and you go to Jerusalem and you see the commitment of, well, commitment to Judaism, to the study of the Torah, to the study of the law, I finally learned for the first time what it is they're waiting for.

They believe, they believe that when there's a return to the study of the Torah, by an entire generation that the Messiah then will come and stand on the mount.

So I interviewed a guy, I won't use names because I'd be careful.

I don't know how far this is going to go.

But I interviewed two of the most famous rabbis in the city of Jerusalem.

And I said to him, I said, well, what is it?

First of all, I was surprised how ignorant we Christians are about Orthodox Jews, but I was even more surprised how ignorant they are about Christians.

So we're ignorant about each other.

So I said, what is it that you're, where's your hope?

He said, well, when we finally bring back the red heifer, which means the red heifer is all about cleansing before you go into temple, when we build the temple, and there's legislation before the Knesset actually to rebuild a temple.

I don't know how that's gonna happen, but there's legislation.

When we do that and.

all of Israel start studying the law of God and we're doing what we should do, then the whole world will see that our God is real and every knee will bow and every tongue confess.

Well, I've heard that before, I think in the New Testament and that God, Yahweh is God.

And then when God sees that, he will send Messiah and Messiah will rule.

And then here's my next question.

Then what?

What do you mean?

Then what?

I'm looking at all the Jews who have died.

They're not going to be part of this messianic rule.

I was hoping he'd say something about heaven or something.

No, that's the ultimate goal of the Orthodox Jew.

And I was so sad, so sad that you would be that committed.

And then I thought about what Paul said in Romans 10, because he loves his people.

Do you remember what he said?

I got to fast forward over here.

He says in Romans 10, one through four, brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is they not be saved.

For I can testify about them.

They are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

So you've got all of this sincerity.

They're true, but they feel like that they can be righteous enough to earn the favor of God and then Messiah will come.

Oh man, I've got so much to say.

So much.

Oh, I'm not even halfway there.

I can't, I can't do that because the other campuses will come after me.

So I said to Rabbi, I said, where's your hope?

And he said, well, what do you Christians believe?

We believe Messiah already came.

What?

But there's no third temple.

There's no red heifer.

And I read the passages of scripture that say, Jesus is the third temple.

He makes his home in us.

That we have been forgiven of our sins.

We don't need the red heifer because.

Christ sacrificed.

So I was able to share this and you should see the look in his eye.

Here's a rabbi that you would think would know everything about Christians.

And I looked in his eyes and it was like, what?

That's what you really believe that Messiah already came?

Yeah, he was Yeshua.

But it was a good conversation.

No anger, no name.

It was just great.

I almost felt like, man, God's calling me to go live in Jerusalem.

I'm not kidding.

I thought, man, I could.

Because there's a respect for each other because you know the Torah, you know the law, and you can talk in those terms.

But here's the beauty of it.

I fell in love with Jesus walking out of the city because as I was walking out of the city one day, and you're going to hear more about this next week when I stood on the walls.

As I walked out of the city, I thought, oh man.

I'm saved by grace.

I'm a rotten, I got all kinds of issues in my life and I don't, I'm not as zealous and I don't read my Bible on the way to work every morning.

I don't listen to praise and worship music.

I don't pray as diligently as they do.

And I got enough issues in my life.

And I started thinking, man, oh man, thank you.

I'm saved.

I'm saved for the blood of the lamb.

The one thing Israel does not have is hope, assurance.

But Messiah did come.

And because he came, the objective truth is he died on a cross and rose from the dead.

And because I can objectively understand that as a historical reality, I too will rise from the dead.

My hope is not in some kingdom that will happen here on the earth.

My hope is in the kingdom that will come.

And you and I will be with God and he will be our God and we will be his people.

So the question I have for all of us, and I wish I had more time, but the question I have, hey, where are you?

Do you know Jesus?

Are you, because are we in the last days?

I'm going to tell you what I think.

Yes.

How long will they last?

I don't know.

But there's too many things going on.

There's plans to build the temple.

Here's what I think.

I don't understand it all, but I wonder, because God loves his people so much, I wonder, there's a verse, I gotta read this verse.

I'm sorry, I have to read this verse.

I have to.

I have to read, you have to hear this verse.

So this is what got me.

Okay, Zechariah 12.10.

I know of no other way to explain this, and then I'm gonna finish.

I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.

They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

On that day, the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Ramon in the plain of Megiddo.

And he goes on to talk about how everyone will mourn.

But remember, he says, they will look on the one they have pierced and they will mourn.

There's no other way I can get around that.

I'd like.

to because it doesn't fit very well with my eschatological theology but I'm assuming is it possible there's a dual fulfillment here that Messiah is gonna come just like the Jews believe and when he stands on the Temple Mount they're gonna realize that's Yeshua we missed him and they're gonna mourn and they're gonna they're gonna mourn because they're gonna realize he was pierced for us and we read all these years but then the Bible says there'll be a remnant come When that will happen, I don't know, but everything's lining up.

The red heifers, the tabernacle, the temple, everything.

Because of the war, there has been a massive amount of young adults turn back to God because they're asking the question, if I'm willing to die for something, I probably should be willing to live for it.

Whom am I?

And as they go back, to the Torah.

I think all of you ought to go with me and we ought to talk to them about Jesus.

Hey, I don't know.

We're probably only going to do one song.

I don't know what they're going to do.

I apologize.

But then again, I don't apologize.

Don't miss next week because I'll finish this.

Father, thank you for your love for us.

Thank you for the peace and the patience of the people of God.

I pray that I...

Anything I said that is not consistent with your word or what is true would be forgotten.

Everything that I said that is consistent with your word and what is real.

what is an actuality would go deep into our hearts and never forgotten but more than anything i pray that right now we would remember the grace and the mercy and what jesus did on the cross when he said it is finished our salvation is secure not because of how good or righteous we are but because how good and righteous he is and because of his forgiveness in christ's name we are ready for the last days everybody said amen we're so glad you could join us for this message If you would like to learn more about what it means to become a Christian, we would love for you to go to oneandall.church.com.

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