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Episode: “Bill Salus and August Rosado”

Bill Salus discusses three future wars: the Palestinian-led war mentioned in Psalm 83, the Gog and Magog war, and Armageddon. August Rosado speaks against Replacement Theology and the nuclear arrangement with Iran, and looks toward the day when Jesus reigns from Jerusalem.

Series: “Israel In Prophecy”

This series addresses the very human need to understand the supernatural. People all over the world are looking for… something. We interviewed key leaders in the prophecy movement in order to equip our viewers with biblical truth as the world explores every strange doctrine.

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Caption transcript for Israel In Prophecy: “Bill Salus and August Rosado” (7/8)

00:07 This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.
00:13 Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse
00:18 deceiving and being deceived.
00:20 But continue in the Holy Scriptures
00:23 which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
00:27 through faith in Christ Jesus.
00:44 Shalom and welcome to our program.
00:46 I'm Myles Weiss
00:47 And I'm Katharine Weiss
00:48 And we want to welcome you today.
00:50 Today we're going to be speaking about Israel in prophecy.
00:53 The scripture talks about can a nation be born in a day;
00:56 and yes God birthed the nation of Israel.
00:59 It also talks about in Matthew 24:4-8
01:02 that wars and rumors of wars will take place in the last days
01:07 before our LORD Himself will come.
01:10 Yes, Isaiah saw it 800 years before Christ was born
01:13 He said in Isaiah 66:8
01:15 that a nation will be born in a day
01:17 looking forward to 1948
01:19 when Israel came back into our own land.
01:22 But there are contending voices.
01:23 There are spirits coming against the land, against the people;
01:27 primarily against the God of the people
01:29 because that is what really is going on.
01:32 We're looking forward to seeing the unfolding of this prophecy
01:35 and we're going to see 3 major wars before the LORD returns.
01:38 There's the Psalm 83 war...
01:40 the Arab surrounding nations;
01:42 there's Gog and Magog which will draw in Iran and Russia;
01:44 and finally there's Armageddon
01:46 which will be all nations coming against Jerusalem
01:49 including the kings of the East.
01:51 We're going to hear about that today
01:52 from our good friend Bill Salus.
01:54 He's a prophecy teacher
01:56 and he's got some real insight into the coming days.
01:59 So let's go to our interview with Bill Salus.
02:02 Well I think it's very applicable for our time.
02:04 It's a prophecy written 3,000 years ago
02:06 by King David's worship leader Asaph
02:09 who was also a prophet we're told in 2 Chronicles 29:30
02:13 And he talks about a confederacy that's going to come together
02:17 of Arab populations and people groups
02:19 which today happen to share common borders with Israel.
02:22 Lebanon, Hezbollah are there...
02:24 Syria, Jordan, Iraq,
02:26 Saudi Arabia, Palestinians, Hamas, Egypt...
02:32 enemies of Israel since Israel became a nation and the wars that they fought.
02:35 And of course the terrorists groups have spawned from that.
02:38 But Asaph says that they're going to come together in a confederacy;
02:42 they're going to form a devious plan
02:44 and they're going to try to cut the nation off
02:47 that the name of Israel can be remembered no more.
02:50 It's a confederacy that wants to wipe Israel off of the map
02:54 and we're told later on is Psalm 83:12
02:57 that they want to take for themselves
02:59 the pastures of God for a possession.
03:02 So it's a prophecy that has not found fulfillment yet through the Old Testament
03:07 and they want to destroy the nations of Israel
03:10 which means there has to be an Israel...
03:12 there was no Israel between 70 AD and 1948
03:15 but there is an Israel now.
03:17 And what is the mantra of a lot of the Arab states over there right now?
03:22 Hamas terrorist population on to the Gaza,
03:24 "we don't recognize Israel's right to exist".
03:26 Syria doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist.
03:29 Really if it's a prophecy for our time;
03:31 and I sincerely think it is,
03:33 they don't want peace with the Jews.
03:35 No they don't
03:36 They want one more Arab state
03:38 and they want to hail the flag of Palestine over that state.
03:40 And they want a universal caliphate
03:42 with its capitol in Jerusalem
03:44 They do and a matter of fact
03:46 the Muslim Brotherhood when they were in power
03:48 right before Mohamed Morsi got ousted this past June
03:51 they had wanted to march towards Jerusalem at some point.
03:54 That was going to be his ultimate goal.
03:56 And not just them, that's also with the Palestinians
03:59 that they want Jerusalem to be the eternal capital of the Palestinian state
04:03 and that's widespread in Islam.
04:06 And so we've really been getting a lot of pressure in that direction.
04:09 When the Palestinian authority
04:11 once the United Nations at the end of 2012 got a non-member state status
04:16 3 days later early December
04:18 Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority,
04:21 said one day Jerusalem will be the eternal capital of the Palestinian state.
04:27 That's what they want.
04:29 When you look at the end time prophecy of Psalm 83
04:32 how many nations are involved in this confederacy?
04:36 Well when Asaph wrote 3,000 years ago
04:40 he had Ammonites and Moabites and Edomites
04:43 and I often like to say gigabytes...
04:45 Yeah (laughing)
04:48 But we have little time so I'll keep it focused.
04:51 But he didn't have Palestinians,
04:53 he didn't have Jordanians, Hezbollah, things like that
04:55 so we have to extrapolate who was he trying to identify for us
04:58 when the prophecy is going to find fulfillment;
05:00 who will they embody as far as territorially,
05:03 as far as ethnically and things like that.
05:05 So he mentions 10 populations
05:07 and among them first he talks about the tents of Edom
05:11 Now whenever you have a member in a confederacy listed first
05:15 they tend to be very important in that confederacy...
05:18 their plight or they're the leader or something like that.
05:21 So "tents of" speak of the Edomites in a habitation condition.
05:26 "Tents of" Biblically represent refugee conditions or military encampments.
05:30 So I go through my book
05:33 and do the research as to who are the Edomites today
05:36 and the Edomites have descended from Jacob's twin brother Esau
05:39 and they have ethnical representations in the Palestinians today.
05:43 The Palestinians became refugees
05:46 when they first came against Israel in 1948.
05:49 That's when the "tents of Edom" became a reality
05:52 And now we've got a problem.
05:53 That's true
05:54 We've still got a refugee crisis
05:56 and what are the Arab states trying to banner?
05:58 A Palestinian state
06:00 You know... let them have Palestine,
06:01 we need one more Arab state
06:03 and we don't want them to be refugees anymore;
06:05 we want to destroy Israel so we can take over the Promised Land,
06:09 the Pastures of God,
06:10 so we can have a Palestinian state.
06:12 It's amazing how meticulously accurate
06:15 the prophetic Word of God is isn't it?
06:18 And you can certainly see that in your detail analysis of Psalm 83.
06:23 I've been told there's what, 9 end time battles in the Bible?
06:28 Actually Dr. David Reagan has come out with...
06:31 I think it's something called
06:33 "The 9 End Times Wars of the Bible"
06:35 and he does a really good job on that.
06:37 Three real big ones though that I'm focused on would be
06:41 the Psalm 83 which would be
06:43 the climactic concluding Arab-Israeli war
06:45 which I believe could be very well eminent
06:47 in light of all the geopolitical things
06:49 that are going on right now especially since "Arab Spring".
06:53 I think that then Israel wins that war.
06:55 I point out that the Israeli Defense Forces
06:58 rally to the cause;
06:59 they're in fulfillment of Bible prophecy,
07:02 they win that war,
07:03 then Israel can burgeon out a little bit...
07:06 a little more territory...
07:07 become a little safer...
07:08 they will be prosperous,
07:10 they're already very prosperous.
07:11 And then you got this big, big major prophetic war
07:14 described in Ezekiel 38 and 39
07:17 where Russia puts together a coalition...
07:20 9 total countries totally different than Psalm 83.
07:23 None of the coalition in Ezekiel 38 and 39 share common borders with Israel
07:30 And Iran is mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and 39.
07:33 Ezekiel 38 and 39...
07:34 and of course Iran's in the news now with their nuclear program
07:37 so I believe the Israel that is involved in Ezekiel 38 and 39
07:40 were given descriptions...
07:42 they're dwelling securely in the midst of the land
07:44 in the later days
07:46 without walls, bars nor gates;
07:47 they're very prosperous.
07:49 Then Russia musters up its coalition
07:51 to come against that specific Israel
07:54 and Todd personally at this point I don't believe that Israel exists entirely.
07:58 They're not dwelling securely...
08:00 they've got a 403 mile wall that separates Palestinian territory
08:04 and they've got check points and things like that over there.
08:08 Now when they can eliminate the concerns
08:11 with the Arab problem around them,
08:13 and certainly nobody wants war
08:16 but apparently that's what it's going to come to,
08:18 then they can dwell securely
08:20 and they can take down that wall
08:21 if we want to look at that literally.
08:23 The Berlin wall came down real quick;
08:25 so can that wall.
08:26 So I think that we could be looking at
08:29 very detailed prophecies dealing with that war
08:32 Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38
08:33 and then of course the grand-daddy war of all
08:35 as the final climactic war when the Armageddon campaign,
08:39 the anti-Christ...that's another thing in the tribulation period.
08:43 Where do you think the United States is in all of this?
08:47 Do you think maybe the rapture happening right before the tribulation
08:52 plays a factor into their pacifist protesting Rome?
08:57 Well that would certainly neutralize not only the American army
09:02 but it would also neutralize a lot of the European armies
09:05 and Western armies in general.
09:06 As a matter of fact in the scenario you're suggesting there
09:09 if you have Israel winning some wars in Psalm 83 and the Russian war where it actually,
09:15 not the IDF, but the LORD stops that war we're told
09:18 with fire and hailstones and brimstone in Ezekiel 38.
09:21 And now you've got this different Israel...
09:23 this burgeoning Israel...
09:25 and all of a sudden you take out the rapture with the Christians.
09:29 They're will be a lot of Christians go out of Europe
09:31 because now all of a sudden Russia... There's a big void.
09:34 The coalition of Gog and Magog is predominantly all Muslim.
09:37 No Muslims unless they believe in Jesus...
09:39 and if they believe in Jesus they become a Christian not a Muslim any further...
09:42 those Muslims are not going to be raptured,
09:45 their armies will still be 100 percent intact.
09:47 Western armies will be neutralized.
09:50 Greatly depleted
09:52 Greatly depleted; not just America but also Lutherans
09:55 and Germany and that sort of thing
09:57 So you would have a situation where Russia could say
09:59 look Iran, Turkey, Libya
10:01 and the other members involved in that coalition say,
10:04 look the only thing standing between us and superpower status now
10:07 is that burgeoning Israel over there;
10:10 let's go get their wealth;
10:11 they think they're dwelling securely at this point in time
10:13 and let's go tackle them.
10:15 So that would be in Ezekiel 38 and 39.
10:17 So that's if the rapture occurred before Ezekiel 38 and 39.
10:22 It makes sense...you know it all seems to fit together.
10:25 Well we don't know the timing of course of the rapture.
10:28 Right it's a sign-less event...
10:30 it's eminent...
10:31 it could happen at any moment.
10:33 I subscribe to a pre-trib rapture.
10:36 I don't think the church will be appointed to the wrath of God So do I
10:40 displayed in the tribulation.
10:43 But I also believe Psalm 83 is a pre-trib scenario
10:47 and I point out why it can't happen in the tribulation.
10:50 When you understand the Psalm
10:51 it has to happen before the tribulation.
10:53 I also believe there's sound reasons to think
10:56 that Ezekiel 38 and 39 happens
10:58 at least 3 1/2 years before the tribulation...
11:01 they're burning weapons for 7 years.
11:03 So in the first half of the tribulation 3 1/2 years they could be burning weapons
11:06 and the first 3 1/2 years before the tribulation they could be burning weapons
11:10 so some of us subscribe to the thought that
11:12 that's also a pre-trib event and the rapture of course pre-trib.
11:17 So three big pre-trib events
11:20 that seem to be on the nearby horizon
11:21 and all game changes for the world.
11:26 Psalm 83 is a very important psalm for us to know.
11:30 It's about the surrounding nations that will attack Israel.
11:33 But God Himself will defend His nation in His Name.
11:38 You see it says in Psalm 83 that they may know
11:41 that "I Am alone Jehovah;"
11:44 "I Am the LORD of all"
11:47 "the most high over all the earth".
11:49 It is so exciting to know the One that keeps His people.
11:53 Yes and really that's what it's about.
11:55 When you see the attack against Israel
11:57 you really need to know the attack is really against
11:59 the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is Israel.
12:03 It's amazing to realize that the United Nation's
12:06 high commission for refugees
12:08 is made up of all the service to all the refugees in the world
12:12 They serve 40 million refugees with 7,000 workers
12:17 and they take care of them in one generation.
12:19 The only refugee work that has been going on
12:23 for generation after generation
12:25 has to do with the Palestinian Arabs.
12:27 They have been for 3 1/2 generations
12:30 there are 30,000 workers at the
12:33 United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency...
12:36 30,000 workers permanent class of workers
12:39 to serve only 5 1/2 million people, why,
12:42 because they keep them in a permanent refugee class.
12:46 And the issue that we hear a lot
12:47 is about the right of return for the Arabs
12:50 but what really is at issue is the right of absorption.
12:54 Those people need to be lifted up and served
12:58 by their Arab brothers and sisters around the world.
13:00 Those surrounding nations
13:02 if they would only welcome them
13:04 and open their doors to them
13:05 there would be peace in the Middle East.
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15:00 It means everything to us.
15:03 You know we're hearing about these wars and rumors of wars
15:06 and the point of all of this conflict
15:09 is to reveal the God of heaven to mankind.
15:12 Scripture tells us
15:13 (speaking Hebrew)
15:17 "that You alone, whose name is the LORD are known in all the earth."
15:22 That's the point of all the wars
15:24 that men would be humbled.
15:26 It's so amazing to me that Israel is in God's eyes,
15:29 on God's heart;
15:30 mentioned 2,566 times in the Bible...
15:34 "Jerusalem" 811 times in the Bible.
15:37 Is Jerusalem in the Koran?
15:38 Not once
15:40 Now let's go to Todd Baker interviewing August Rosado.
15:46 Israel is very important to God.
15:47 If you read your Bible
15:49 Israel is mentioned 2,566 times in the scriptures
15:53 so Israel is very important to God.
15:55 God has a plan for Israel and the Jewish people.
15:59 Unfortunately many of those in the church today
16:01 have counted Israel out with this replacement theology
16:04 and saying that because Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah
16:08 God is through with Israel,
16:09 wants nothing to do with the Jewish people anymore
16:12 and all the promises that God gave to the Jews are now null and void
16:16 and have been transferred over to the church
16:18 and so now the church is the new Israel.
16:20 We don't subscribe to that here at "Today in Bible Prophecy" ministries
16:23 and I know that Zola Levitt Ministries does not as well.
16:26 And So God does have a plan for Israel.
16:29 He will fulfill that plan in the not too distant future.
16:32 If you believe in replacement theology
16:34 then you better rip Romans chapters 9, 10
16:37 and especially chapter 11 out of your Bible
16:39 because Paul blows that doctrine right out of the water.
16:43 He sure does and in Romans 11:1 and 2 he poses this hypothetical.
16:48 He said has God cast away His people whom He foreknew?
16:51 His people meaning Israel the Jewish people
16:53 And He says
16:54 In verse 2 God forbid
16:57 God forbid or "meganointa"
16:59 which is the strongest negative in the Greek, negative emphatic.
17:02 And then I think of Jeremiah 31:35-37
17:05 that God said the nation of Israel
17:07 will always exist before Him.
17:09 The universe would have to cease to exist first
17:12 if God were to forsake Israel as a nation right?
17:16 Exactly I love using Jeremiah 31.
17:18 I preached a message a long time ago called
17:20 "How to Destroy Israel"
17:22 and if you can count all the stars that are in the sky
17:25 and give God an accurate number
17:27 God says I'll break my promise to Israel.
17:29 If you can count every single grain of sand that's on the seashore
17:33 and give God an accurate number
17:35 God said I'll wipe Israel off the face of the map pretty much.
17:38 But the point is that is impossible.
17:41 And so God says it's impossible for me to break my promises with Israel and the Jewish people.
17:48 So to say that God is done with Israel
17:50 is in my thinking it's just impossible.
17:55 Well it's theological anti-Semitism really.
17:58 What it's called...yeah
18:00 When I look at an Israeli,
18:02 as you know I go to Israel 3 times a year to bring the Gospel of Yeshua back to them,
18:06 I look at them eye to eye and say when I look at a Jewish person I know 3 things are true.
18:11 Number 1 God exists
18:13 Number 2 the Bible is true
18:14 And Number 3 God keeps His promises
18:17 that He made with Israel that are revealed in scripture.
18:19 Exactly, why does Satan hate the Jewish people so much
18:24 when Number 1 they gave us the scriptures;
18:26 they gave us the Word of God.
18:27 Romans Chapter 3:2 tells us
18:29 that God committed the oracles to them
18:32 so all of the authors of the Bible are Jewish.
18:36 I even believe that Luke was a Jew contrary to popular belief.
18:40 I do too.
18:41 I think he was a Hellenistic Jew.
18:42 Absolutely...absolutely
18:44 So all the authors of the Bible were Jewish
18:46 Number 2 he hates Israel because they gave us Yeshua.
18:50 They gave us the LORD Jesus Christ.
18:52 And the 3rd reason he hates the Jews
18:54 is because at the second coming of Jesus Christ
18:57 at the end of the 7 year period of tribulation
18:59 he is coming back
19:00 not to Washington D.C.,
19:02 not to Boston, Massachusetts.
19:04 He is coming back to Eretz Israel...
19:06 He's coming back to the Land of Israel
19:09 to the City of Yerushalayim,
19:10 to the City of Jerusalem
19:11 where He will one day establish a millennial kingdom reign
19:15 which I believe will be literal,
19:17 it'll be physical and it will be bodily
19:19 there in the City of Jerusalem.
19:21 Satan thinks that if he can
19:23 wipe Israel off of the face of the map
19:24 and kill every single Jew
19:26 it will thwart the promises of God
19:28 that Jesus Christ will come back to this earth.
19:30 But we know that's not going to happen
19:32 because we read the end of the book
19:33 and we know who wins.
19:35 (Todd speaking) Absolutely Well you know it reminds me
19:37 of this thing going on with Iran right now.
19:40 Inexplicably the Whitehouse claims they made a deal
19:43 with Iran over their acquisition of a nuclear weapon
19:47 and to think that they're just going to stop doing that
19:51 is ridiculous when quite frankly
19:53 their religion Islam teaches them
19:55 that they can lie to the infidel
19:57 and secretly carry out their plans for destruction.
20:00 And we know that Islam is not friendly
20:04 to the Jew or to Israel.
20:05 That's right...that's right
20:07 And of course lying is justified in Islam
20:10 as long as it furthers the cause it's justified in Islam.
20:13 And this deal that President Obama made with Iran
20:18 as well according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
20:20 was a very historic mistake.
20:22 And I agree with the Prime Minister.
20:24 I mean Iran is laughing behind the scenes.
20:27 It's not stopping their nuclear program
20:29 it's only slowing it down.
20:31 But they're still enriching uranium.
20:33 They still want to make a nuclear bomb.
20:36 And just like Iran's former president Ahmadinejad
20:40 this new guy Hassan Rouhani
20:43 he's saying we're going to wipe Israel off the face of the map.
20:46 And so in their mindset
20:48 in order to bring in an Islamic caliphate, a global kingdom,
20:51 we need to start World War III,
20:54 wipe the infidels, the Jewish people in Israel
20:57 off the face of the map
20:58 and then we can usher in this Islamic kingdom
21:02 or what they call the Mahdi,
21:03 the Muslim messiah.
21:05 So these guys are serious about what they believe... They sure are
21:09 dead serious in what they believe.
21:11 They're crazy but they're dead serious in what they believe.
21:13 They want to wipe Israel off the face of the map
21:16 but we know according to Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39
21:18 there will be a Russian led Arab coalition of nations
21:20 that will come up against the Jewish people
21:23 possibly early on in the tribulation period
21:25 but God said He's going to wipe this invasion out
21:29 and all those Arab nations will be destroyed,
21:31 Russia will be destroyed but Israel will be standing
21:35 and probably come to know Yeshua as their Messiah.
21:38 Do you see the Obama administration's foolish deal with Iran...
21:43 do you see that as the beginning point of America now turning away from Israel?
21:47 That could be a possibility.
21:49 I mean the Bible makes it clear
21:50 that one day all nations will come up against Israel.
21:53 And even though there's not any specific reference
21:56 to the United States in Bible prophecy
21:58 yet we can find general references to all nations
22:02 and of course America is part of all nations.
22:04 Zechariah 12: 2-3, God says
22:07 I will bring all nations against Jerusalem,
22:09 I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling,
22:11 I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone against
22:15 those nations who try to take Jerusalem away from the Jews.
22:17 In Zechariah 14:2 He says
22:19 I will gather all nations...
22:22 sure you could throw America in there
22:23 if she's even still around...
22:25 I will gather all nations against Jerusalem for battle.
22:28 So the battle is for Jerusalem.
22:30 You read about Jerusalem in the newspapers every single day.
22:33 Palestinian authority...
22:35 we want East Jerusalem for a future capital for a Palestinian state.
22:39 The Arab world...
22:41 we want Jerusalem.
22:42 In Iran once a year they have the annual al-Quds,
22:45 Jerusalem Day.
22:46 We have Arab nations that are saying
22:48 we need to go and take Jerusalem by force away from the Jews.
22:53 And that is in lockstep
22:55 with Bible prophecy in Zechariah 12:2-3.
22:58 It sure is
23:00 Zechariah 14:2 and other passages that we find in the Old Testament
23:03 And God says I will meet these nations head on.
23:05 I will destroy these nations.
23:07 Israel will be the only nation left standing at that time.
23:11 God has promises to keep Todd
23:12 and He will defend His chosen people, the apple of His eye,
23:16 the Jewish people.
23:18 You know Jerusalem obviously is a prominent city in the Bible.
23:23 It's mentioned 811 times in the scripture.
23:26 And Jesus called it the Great City of the King.
23:28 So He understood its significance
23:30 as far as it relates to the place of His future reign here on earth.
23:35 Over 800 times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Bible
23:37 but not once is it mentioned in the Koran...
23:40 not one specific reference to Jerusalem in the Koran
23:44 but yet the Arabs are saying Jerusalem belongs to us.
23:47 Even the Koran teaches that God gave the land to the Jewish people
23:52 and even calls them the people of the Book.
23:56 And so yes in Revelation Chapter 20
23:58 talks about a literal 1,000 year reign
24:01 And even though those in the church today Todd
24:03 are denying that there will be a literal 1,000 year reign.
24:07 They'll say well sure it says a thousand years
24:08 but it really doesn't mean what it says.
24:11 Well God says what He means
24:12 and He means what He says.
24:14 I mean does He have to put neon lights in the sky
24:15 flashing 1,000 years...1,000 years
24:18 That's what it says 6 times in Revelation 20:2-7
24:21 that He will reign for 1,000 years.
24:24 We just need to take God's Word
24:26 for its plain sense literal meaning
24:28 because the plain sense makes sense.
24:30 Don't look for any other sense
24:32 or you will end up with nonsense.
24:34 There's just a lot of nonsense going around.
24:35 First rule of sound Biblical interpretation...
24:38 take the Bible in its plain, literal sense.
24:41 The Bible interprets the Bible...
24:42 Especially when it comes to Bible prophecy
24:46 And then you think of Joel 3:1-3
24:49 those nations that try to divide the Holy Land
24:52 and rest the Jewish people from it
24:54 are negatively promised sure judgment by God.
24:58 And God says He's going to take those nations and meet them head on in Joel 3
25:02 that you just mentioned in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
25:04 When I first got saved I thought the Valley of Jehoshaphat
25:07 was the Jezreel Valley in Northern Israel...it isn't.
25:09 It's the Kidron Valley in the city of Jerusalem
25:13 that separates the Mount of Olives
25:14 from the East to the Temple Mount on the West.
25:17 And I take our tour groups into the Kidron Valley
25:20 every single year when we go to Israel
25:22 and I say, "This is the place that Joel talks about in chapter 3"
25:25 "where God said He will meet all those nations head-on in this very valley."
25:30 He's going to destroy those nations, why,
25:32 because they have parted or divided my land.
25:36 And Todd look at what our own country's doing today
25:39 and these political world powers.
25:41 They are trying to divide Jerusalem.
25:44 You know the Vatican says we'll make it an international city.
25:47 The Arabs say no it belongs to us.
25:49 This nation says no we ought to run it.
25:50 It belongs to Israel.
25:52 Jerusalem has been the capital of the state of Israel
25:55 for over 3,000 years
25:57 since King David took it from the Jebusites
26:00 in 2 Samuel Chapter 5.
26:01 I was watching an interview
26:04 when Naftali Bennett the House Administer of Israel
26:06 talking to Christiane Amanpour on CNN
26:10 and he picked up out of his pocket
26:13 a 2,000 year old Jewish coin
26:16 and he said Christiane this is a 2,000 year old coin
26:20 that shows my people were in this land long before the Arabs came on the scene.
26:28 You know we recognize the B'rit Hadasha,
26:30 the New Testament as the final word of God in scripture
26:34 but you know the new covenant really begins in Jeremiah 31;
26:37 it's a promise to Israel.
26:39 And we see in August Rosado's interview
26:42 that he's really making the case
26:43 for the Jewish presence in the land
26:45 and actually King David bought the Temple Mount,
26:49 the threshing floor of Ornan 3,000 years ago
26:52 and established Jerusalem.
26:53 It has been a Jewish land for a very long time.
26:56 It's so wonderful to see...
26:58 you know we know as believers
27:00 that the land was given to the Jews
27:01 but then to see archaeologists prove it with a coin
27:04 it's amazing and we know that it's true.
27:07 Yeah it is
27:09 and we know that He's coming back to a Jewish Jerusalem.
27:11 Absolutely
27:12 That's why we always ask you to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
27:15 So we say it this way
27:16 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
27:19 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
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