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Episode: “Forewarnings of Destruction”
Early in Josiah’s reign, several prophets— Zephaniah, Habakkuk, and eventually Jeremiah—forewarned the coming destruction of Babylon. In the aftermath of the October 7 attack by Hamas, the Bearded Bible Brothers roam the desolate streets of Jerusalem explaining the children of Israel’s historic cycles of disobedience, persecution, deliverance, and finally reformation.
Series: “Josiah and the Last Reformation”
Josiah’s life and the last days of the Kingdom of Judah parallel the last days of Believers today. Through His prophets, God forewarned Judah of the destruction to come at the hands of the Babylonians due to their rebellious hearts. America has fallen into similar sin and turned from God. This could lead to the removal of America as a world superpower and allow the emergence of the final Babylon—Babylon the Great.

However, Josiah humbled himself before God and pushed the greatest moral and spiritual reformation in all of history, extending God’s prophetic timetable of judgment. Believers today could witness a final Last Days outpouring of the Holy Spirit as prophesied in Joel, if we would only repent and cry out to God.

Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “Forewarnings of Destruction” (3/9)

  • 00:01 ♪♪♪ David Hart: We're glad you've joined us today for our series, "Josiah and the Last
  • 00:10 Reformation." Kirsten Hart: On today's program, we're discussing
  • 00:12 warnings and consequences.
  • 00:15 At this point in the story, the northern kingdom has already
  • 00:18 fallen and things aren't looking so great for Judah.
  • 00:21 David: The Jaffa Gate is where we're taking you right now where
  • 00:24 Joshua and Caleb will be teaching.
  • 00:26 Let's go there now.
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  • 01:01 Caleb Colson: Judah was on a countdown to their doom and
  • 01:04 destruction whether King Josiah knew it or not.
  • 01:08 You know, many years prior they saw the Assyrian Empire come and
  • 01:12 take the children of Israel captive.
  • 01:14 Those were the ten northern tribes also called Samaria, and
  • 01:18 at this moment, Judah was getting forewarnings by God
  • 01:22 that judgment would come to them as well.
  • 01:24 Joshua Colson: Pro tip, when God says judgment is coming,
  • 01:27 you repent.
  • 01:29 Joshua: Originally, we were scheduled to film this in
  • 01:32 Lachish, but war broke out between Israel and the
  • 01:34 Gaza Strip.
  • 01:36 So, even though we wanted to show you the historical place
  • 01:39 where Syrian Babylon fulfilled the prophecy, blew Lachish out
  • 01:42 of the water, we've had to adapt.
  • 01:45 Here we are today.
  • 01:46 Caleb: So, back to the story.
  • 01:47 Judgment was coming on the kingdom of Judah.
  • 01:51 God always sent his prophets early in advance to give them
  • 01:55 that advanced warning.
  • 01:56 We're talking all the way back to the time of Moishe, Moses.
  • 02:00 They heard what would happen in the future when they would turn
  • 02:03 from God and follow after other gods.
  • 02:05 Let's read that scripture.
  • 02:06 Deuteronomy 29:26-28, "They went off and worshiped other
  • 02:11 gods and bow down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had
  • 02:15 not given them.
  • 02:16 Therefore, the Lord's anger burned against this land so that
  • 02:19 he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
  • 02:22 In furious anger and in great wrath of the Lord uprooted them
  • 02:25 from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is
  • 02:28 written now."
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  • 02:44 Caleb: The freshest pomegranate juice I've ever had.
  • 02:47 It's like just if you took pomegranate and squeezed.
  • 02:50 Oh, we did take a pomegranate and squeeze it.
  • 02:54 Joshua: That prophecy was spot on.
  • 02:56 The Israelites had future warning of their impending
  • 02:59 consequences and the Lord supernaturally came in and saved
  • 03:02 them on several occasions, but no matter what happened, they
  • 03:05 never seemed to find consistency in their devotion to God.
  • 03:08 It was always a roller coaster that was up and down.
  • 03:11 The cycle went something like this.
  • 03:13 Caleb: Okay, Israelites sin, get into apostasy, God sends his
  • 03:16 prophets, warns in the judgment.
  • 03:18 God removes his hand of protection.
  • 03:20 Enemy comes, oppresses God's people, they cry out to God for
  • 03:23 help, God sends a deliverer, Israelites will say, yay, they
  • 03:26 worship God again, and after their death, the vicious cycle
  • 03:30 starts all over again.
  • 03:31 Caleb: Now, I'm not a mathematician, but you
  • 03:34 guys failed.
  • 03:35 Joshua: Man, that's a terrible cycle.
  • 03:38 Maybe they figured it out the 15th time.
  • 03:40 Caleb: Jeremiah 25:4-7, "Moreover, Adonai has sent to
  • 03:45 you all of His servants the prophets, sending them early and
  • 03:48 often but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear,
  • 03:51 saying, 'Turn, now, everyone from his evil way.
  • 03:54 Do not go after other gods to serve them, to worship them, and
  • 03:57 so do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so I would
  • 04:00 do you no harm.'
  • 04:02 Yet you have not listened to Me, declares Adonai, so you are
  • 04:05 provoking Me with the works of your hands, to your own hurt."
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  • 04:24 Joshua: If you know your Bible, then you know the conclusion to
  • 04:26 Israel's sin.
  • 04:27 After centuries of rebellion against God, he finally removed
  • 04:31 his hand of protection and the Assyrian army came in and
  • 04:34 decimated them and took them all captive.
  • 04:36 He finally left them to their own devices.
  • 04:39 Joshua: Wait a minute, does this mean if we leave our kids to
  • 04:42 their own devices Assyria will come for them, too?
  • 04:45 Caleb: Yes, yes, it does.
  • 04:49 Joshua: Oopsie-daisy.
  • 04:50 Caleb: Man, the sister kingdom, Judah, saw with their very eyes
  • 04:53 the words of the prophet fulfilled.
  • 04:55 Their brethren, Israel, were hauled away in shackles to a
  • 04:58 foreign land that they didn't know, and then Assyria came to
  • 05:02 Judah's doorstep, wiped out tons of the Judan cities, Sennacherib
  • 05:05 and his armies to siege Jerusalem, but God
  • 05:10 supernaturally intervened this pompous, arrogant army when
  • 05:13 they spoke against the God of Israel, wiped out the
  • 05:16 Assyrian forces.
  • 05:17 At that moment, Manasseh was alive and he saw with his own
  • 05:22 eyes the deliverance of the Lord, yet they would not believe
  • 05:24 the words of the prophets and they failed to send and apostasy
  • 05:27 again, and the next word from the prophets would be of an even
  • 05:30 greater enemy that would come, Babylon.
  • 05:35 Joshua: Habakkuk 1:5-6, "Look at the nations and watch and be
  • 05:39 utterly amazed.
  • 05:40 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous
  • 05:43 people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings
  • 05:46 not their own.
  • 05:48 He, Babylon, gathers to himself all the nations and takes
  • 05:51 captive all the peoples."
  • 05:53 Caleb: I'm here in the Jaffa Gate.
  • 05:55 Lots of people around because half the city is closed down.
  • 05:59 Rockets were raining down last night, shopping malls are
  • 06:03 closed, a lot of the tourist sites are closed.
  • 06:06 People are just chilling, wondering where do we go?
  • 06:09 Let's just sit around, eat some food, street vendor food.
  • 06:15 Caleb: That prophecy from Habakkuk was given in the early
  • 06:18 years of Josiah's life, possibly even during his father's life,
  • 06:22 Ammon, but it calls out Babylon by name during a time when
  • 06:27 Assyria was a world dominating ruler of that known territory.
  • 06:31 And I find it interesting that Babylon was a lesser known area.
  • 06:36 It wasn't even a kingdom that people would think for an
  • 06:38 instant would be able to rise up and become a world superpower.
  • 06:42 Joshua: Yet, in God's never-ending mercy, he sent his
  • 06:45 servant, the prophets, to warn us of impending things.
  • 06:49 Not to sit here and say look what you've done, you're
  • 06:52 horrible, to berate you, degrade you like your little
  • 06:54 sister might.
  • 06:56 No, he sent them so that he could inform you, you could make
  • 06:59 the change and you could draw closer to him.
  • 07:03 Joshua: Micah 1:16, "Shave your head in mourning, for the
  • 07:06 children in whom you delight.
  • 07:07 Make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will go from
  • 07:10 you into exile.
  • 07:12 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound
  • 07:15 overgrown with thickets."
  • 07:19 Joshua: Micah prophesied the doom of Jerusalem and their
  • 07:24 exile long before Babylon ever showed up at their doorstep, but
  • 07:27 we do know that biblically, archaeologically, historically,
  • 07:30 Babylon did come and decimate Jerusalem.
  • 07:33 Jeremiah 34:7, When the army of the king of Babylon was warring
  • 07:37 against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that
  • 07:40 were left against Lachish, against Azekah, for these alone
  • 07:43 remained all the cities of Judah as fortified cities."
  • 07:46 Caleb: Now, one of the many reasons we originally wanted to
  • 07:49 go to Lachish, bombs are raining down again, we're reminding you
  • 07:53 so we can't go over there right now, is because there was this
  • 07:56 discovery move there many years ago on that tell.
  • 07:59 Archaeological discovery was called the Lachish letters.
  • 08:03 There were 18 pottery shards that had ancient Hebrew writings
  • 08:07 on them.
  • 08:08 They call them ostracon, and this verifies the story of
  • 08:11 the Bible.
  • 08:13 Joshua: Take that, even your kitchen pots are on God's side.
  • 08:18 Caleb: During a time when Nebuchadnezzar was besieging
  • 08:21 Jerusalem, he was also besieging Lachish and Azekah and he had
  • 08:27 them cornered, and so they had to have a secret form
  • 08:29 of writing.
  • 08:31 They wrote on these ostracon pots and sent messages back
  • 08:33 and forth.
  • 08:35 So, I want to read one of these messages because it backs up
  • 08:37 that Bible story.
  • 08:38 It's called ostracon number three.
  • 08:40 It was written in 609 B.C.
  • 08:42 and it mentions the prophet Jeremiah and the prophet Uriah.
  • 08:45 It says, "The commander of the army, Coniah, son of Elnatan,
  • 08:49 has gone down to go to Egypt.
  • 08:51 And as for the letter of Tobiah, the servant of the king, which
  • 08:54 came to Shallum, son of Yada from the prophet,
  • 08:57 saying, 'Beware!
  • 08:59 Your servant has sent it to my lord.'"
  • 09:02 This is backing up a scripture passage in Jeremiah 26:20-23, an
  • 09:07 interesting story where there is this rogue prophet Uriah who
  • 09:10 says you guys gotta surrender, and the king at that time,
  • 09:15 Jehoiakim, tries to hunt him down and he sends Elnatan, which
  • 09:19 is the son of Akbar, who is Josiah's trusted attendant, to
  • 09:23 go hunt him down.
  • 09:24 He goes all the way to Egypt to kill him.
  • 09:25 When he mentions the prophet by name, he's talking about
  • 09:28 Jeremiah the prophet, verifying the Bible over and over again,
  • 09:31 these ostracon.
  • 09:32 You read about the prophet warns, the prophet warns, this
  • 09:34 verifies the Bible that indeed what the Bible says is accurate
  • 09:38 according to Babylon's invasion and God's warnings
  • 09:41 against Judah.
  • 09:43 Caleb: Zephania 1:4-6, "I will stretch out My hand against
  • 09:47 Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • 09:50 I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names
  • 09:53 of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests.
  • 09:56 Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those
  • 09:59 who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by
  • 10:03 Milcom; those who have turned back from following the Lord,
  • 10:06 and have not sought the Lord nor inquired of Him."
  • 10:10 Caleb: This was a prophecy that probably shook Josiah to his
  • 10:13 very core, spoken by the prophet Zephaniah before his reforms
  • 10:17 began and before Jeremiah would come on the scene, because the
  • 10:21 detail that all these gods and goddesses and these high places
  • 10:25 that the Judaeans were currently worshiping were false.
  • 10:29 They were demons, and these idols were bringing about their
  • 10:32 own doom and destruction.
  • 10:33 Joshua: You know, there's evil spirits behind every false idol.
  • 10:36 They just love the attention.
  • 10:38 Caleb: You said it, not me.
  • 10:40 Joshua: I am not an evil spirit, come on.
  • 10:45 Joshua: Nimrod worked with Satan to form the world's very first
  • 10:47 religions, the worship of the heavens, even fallen angels, but
  • 10:51 God punished them by scattering the people.
  • 10:54 You see, Israel had made a covenant with God to be his
  • 10:57 bride, so you can understand how a jealous God wouldn't want to
  • 11:01 share his spouse with demons.
  • 11:03 I know I wouldn't.
  • 11:04 Joshua: Jeremiah 3:6-11, "During the reign of King Josiah, the
  • 11:09 Lord said to me, 'Have you seen what faithless Israel has done?
  • 11:12 She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading
  • 11:15 tree and has committed adultery there.
  • 11:18 I thought that after she had
  • 11:19 done all this she would return
  • 11:20 to me but she did not, and her
  • 11:22 unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
  • 11:24 I gave faithless Israel her
  • 11:25 certificate of divorce
  • 11:27 and sent her away because
  • 11:28 of all of her adulteries.
  • 11:30 Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear.
  • 11:33 She also went out and committed adultery, because Israel's
  • 11:36 immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and
  • 11:40 committed adultery with stone and wood.
  • 11:42 The Lord said to me, 'Faithless Israel is more righteous than
  • 11:45 unfaithful Judah.'"
  • 11:47 Caleb: Come on, the siren's going off, you know what we have
  • 11:50 to do.
  • 11:52 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
  • 11:53 Caleb: No, no, no, we gotta go in the bunker.
  • 11:55 Joshua: Finish my shawarma.
  • 11:57 Caleb: Alright, fine, finish your shawarma.
  • 11:58 Joshua: Thank you.
  • 12:00 Caleb: I think the Iron Dome got 'em.
  • 12:02 Yeah, God bless the Iron Dome and the USA for helping to
  • 12:05 provide the Iron Dome, now we can eat.
  • 12:12 Caleb: The Lord does nothing without speaking through his
  • 12:14 servants the prophets, so the question is not has God spoken
  • 12:17 through Israel or the nations and America of this coming
  • 12:20 judgment, the question is why haven't we paid attention to the
  • 12:23 warning signs?
  • 12:24 We have allowed blinders to cover our eyes because of our
  • 12:27 love for sin.
  • 12:29 We have bowed to many idols, many demons.
  • 12:32 We've failed to look to Israel the fig tree to calculate the
  • 12:35 coming in, but the signs of the end times are all around us if
  • 12:38 you're in Israel.
  • 12:39 Even today, rockets were shot off from the Gaza Strip even
  • 12:42 coming as far as Jerusalem.
  • 12:44 Sirens were going off and we were forced into bomb shelters.
  • 12:48 Yeshua is coming soon, these are just the birth pains.
  • 12:51 Joshua: He is coming soon, and while it's not so prevalent in
  • 12:53 America anymore or necessarily Jerusalem, but when we grew up
  • 12:56 in a time period before the '90s, it was not weird to go
  • 13:00 through the streets of downtown and see people holding signs
  • 13:03 that said, "The end is near, repent now."
  • 13:06 You don't really see that now.
  • 13:07 In fact, if somebody saw a sign that said the end is near,
  • 13:11 they'd probably say that that was sus.
  • 13:13 Now, because I'm super young I'll translate for those of you
  • 13:16 who are older, that means to be suspect
  • 13:18 or cringey in today's generation.
  • 13:20 Joshua: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know my kids already told me that was
  • 13:22 a very sus explanation of sus.
  • 13:27 Joshua: But just because every one of those signs that was held
  • 13:30 up, maybe those people didn't have the right motivation or
  • 13:32 maybe they didn't have the right delivery, doesn't mean that the
  • 13:35 message of repentance was actually wrong.
  • 13:37 The question we have to ask ourselves today is why is it
  • 13:39 when somebody offers us the message of repentance, the first
  • 13:42 thing we react with in our heart is no, a stubbornness, a pride?
  • 13:46 I don't need to repent, I didn't do wrong.
  • 13:48 We put up a defensive wall when we should first in reaction be,
  • 13:52 Lord, judge my heart.
  • 13:54 Is there something that I need to repent from?
  • 13:57 In fact, the church as a whole has really neutered its own
  • 14:00 voice as time has gone on.
  • 14:02 Instead of preaching the message of repentance and truth, it's
  • 14:05 backed away from the idea of bad press if we say something that
  • 14:07 people don't like.
  • 14:09 Getting controversial to where people, you know, may
  • 14:11 stop attending.
  • 14:13 Without attendance, how do we pay for our buildings?
  • 14:16 So, we've replaced the idea repentance with this false idea
  • 14:19 of grace.
  • 14:21 It's okay to do anything, anything that you want, all you
  • 14:23 have to do is repent later.
  • 14:26 All of these things and more are problems for us, and in the
  • 14:30 Bible it says here in Matthew 7:16, "You can identify them by
  • 14:34 their fruit, that is by the way they act."
  • 14:37 Caleb: The fact of the matter is, it is the church's job to
  • 14:40 defend truth and to speak truth and to declare the Word of God.
  • 14:44 In fact, James 1:27 says, "Pure and genuine religion in the site
  • 14:48 of God the Father means caring for the orphans and the widows
  • 14:51 in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you."
  • 14:56 Joshua: To answer my question from earlier, why is it when we
  • 14:59 hear the term repent our first reaction is to be prideful
  • 15:03 and defensive?
  • 15:04 Well, it's very simple, because we don't want to repent.
  • 15:07 I know that sounds really harsh and I don't want you to feel
  • 15:10 judged or think that I'm just attacking every single person,
  • 15:13 but generally when you get defensive against the idea of
  • 15:15 repentance it's because you don't want to let go of
  • 15:16 your sin.
  • 15:17 You don't want to let go of the way you've been living your
  • 15:19 life, and a lot of times even if you're not, quote/unquote,
  • 15:21 "doing bad things," the way you're living your life is
  • 15:24 for yourself.
  • 15:25 If Yeshua came back for his bride today and he would begin
  • 15:28 to walk through the streets, what would he find?
  • 15:31 Sick, homeless, uncared for, people angry, fighting, shooting
  • 15:36 rockets at each other, the world in complete disarray.
  • 15:41 It is the responsibility of us who claim to be believers to put
  • 15:44 aside our sin and cast aside all those things that would cause us
  • 15:48 not to be able to live the way that the Father has set up for
  • 15:52 us to do.
  • 15:53 This verse right here, "I am not ashamed for the gospel of
  • 15:56 Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone
  • 15:59 who believes, for the Jew first and also the Greek,"
  • 16:02 Romans 1:16.
  • 16:04 Stand strong and proud in love.
  • 16:08 It isn't judgment to stand up and say this is the truth.
  • 16:11 It isn't judgment to condemn what is wrong.
  • 16:13 If you truly love somebody, you'll speak the truth to them,
  • 16:16 because that is what will set them free.
  • 16:28 [singing in Hebrew]
  • 16:36 [singing in Hebrew]
  • 16:39 Caleb: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
  • 16:43 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
  • 16:48 all your soul and with all your strength."
  • 16:56 Caleb: Any of you who may be familiar with our ministry may
  • 16:59 have heard of Chaim Malespin of the Aliyah Return Center.
  • 17:03 He's a longtime friend of this ministry.
  • 17:05 He actually serves in the IDF as a sergeant major.
  • 17:08 He's been fighting in Gaza this entire time since October
  • 17:12 7th began.
  • 17:13 He's a good friend.
  • 17:15 Joshua: He has been so generous to offer us time in the middle
  • 17:17 of his shifts from his phone on location.
  • 17:20 You'll see that some of these interview portions may seem
  • 17:23 disjointed, it's because he's had to stop in the middle of
  • 17:25 this interview to go on patrol to handle business, but he shows
  • 17:28 a unique perspective of what's been happening in Israel since
  • 17:32 October 7th.
  • 17:33 Let's take a look.
  • 17:35 Caleb: And Chaim, thank you for joining us today.
  • 17:37 Joshua: Now, before you jump in I gotta say this, looking at you
  • 17:41 and what you're wearing right now, you look like the hybrid
  • 17:44 between GI Joe and Chuck Norris if they were Jewish.
  • 17:47 It's like the coolest, toughest-looking dude.
  • 17:50 I feel completely unmasculine in your presence.
  • 17:54 Chaim Malespin: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
  • 17:56 Chuck Norris is the coolest.
  • 17:58 I'd love to meet him one day, that'd be awesome.
  • 18:01 My battery is kind of low, but I'll connect it to a charger.
  • 18:06 Yeah, go on.
  • 18:07 Caleb: You've pretty much been active in the war ever since
  • 18:11 it began.
  • 18:13 We know you've been in some tough situations in the Gaza.
  • 18:16 Have you seen God supernaturally act on behalf of his people
  • 18:20 Israel during this war?
  • 18:23 Chaim: Yes, I would say there's so many stories that need to be
  • 18:26 unpacked, such as from the very beginning, from the
  • 18:30 very beginning.
  • 18:32 And if I have to get off I'll have to get off with you--
  • 18:36 [foreign language]
  • 18:38 Sorry.
  • 18:41 Caleb: Well, Chaim, we understand you're on patrol,
  • 18:45 you're getting spotty reception, but this is the reality of
  • 18:48 the situation.
  • 18:50 Joshua: Wow, so he started to tell the stories about these
  • 18:53 people that had sustained injuries that should have killed
  • 18:55 them and then literally in a month, two or three months, he
  • 18:58 sees them walking around completely whole, and the
  • 19:02 question is how is this even possible?
  • 19:03 And I love his response, they just healed super fast.
  • 19:06 Like, funny, that just doesn't happen.
  • 19:10 It's such a great way to, you know, if somebody doesn't know
  • 19:12 Yeshua it would be like, let me tell you why that just happened.
  • 19:15 And I'm pretty sure that Chaim has been able to be that witness
  • 19:18 out there.
  • 19:19 We're here waiting for a signal to come back.
  • 19:21 As you could tell by his super cool outfit, he is still out
  • 19:25 there on patrol.
  • 19:26 I just think it's amazing that we live in a day and age with
  • 19:29 the technology where he can literally phone in from the
  • 19:32 front of a war, and he's willing to, and tell stories about
  • 19:37 God's faithfulness.
  • 19:39 Hopefully we get it back soon here, but I just think
  • 19:41 it's incredible.
  • 19:42 Chaim: How has the war impacted Israelis in drawing them back to
  • 19:45 the God of Abraham?
  • 19:46 I'd say, you know, do you remember 9/11?
  • 19:49 If you're an American watching this, 9/11 had the impact it
  • 19:52 had, people were suddenly looking for answers.
  • 19:55 They see the death, they see the abyss in the eyes of people, and
  • 20:00 they're searching, they're looking, you know, what is the
  • 20:03 purpose of life?
  • 20:04 We've been given this Promised Land, we were called by a
  • 20:06 promise to be here in this land and to prepare the way and
  • 20:11 remove the stones, prepare the highway of our God, and the
  • 20:16 Messiah will live here, but why us and why does the ugly serpent
  • 20:22 try to devour the seat of hope, to borrow, you know, phraseology
  • 20:27 from the Bible?
  • 20:28 You know, why in the world is this happening?
  • 20:31 And it's called antisemitism, but it's really just anti-God's
  • 20:33 plan, and when the Bible says 700 times he's gonna gather the
  • 20:36 Jewish people here, we as the Aliyah Return Center are here
  • 20:39 to house them for free, and that's thanks to generous people
  • 20:42 like you.
  • 20:44 And to give them not only that food, clothing, shelter, but
  • 20:46 really bless them.
  • 20:47 And when we see them coming back to this land, a lot of them run
  • 20:51 from persecution and they're all looking for the God of Abraham.
  • 20:54 So, I'd say just like 9/11, this is one of the greatest times
  • 20:59 that I've ever seen in my life.
  • 21:02 The greatest time I've ever seen in my life where people are
  • 21:04 searching for the truth, people are putting on prayer shawls,
  • 21:09 they're putting on the phylacteries, you know, you wrap
  • 21:11 it on your arm, around your arm you'll wrap these up.
  • 21:14 The Bible does say bind my word upon the frontlets of your eyes
  • 21:18 and upon your arm, and so people will do that and they'll feel
  • 21:22 that through these accessories they're drawing close to God,
  • 21:25 they're getting closer.
  • 21:26 I would say that that is prevalent, but here's the thing,
  • 21:29 they don't know about Yeshua being the Messiah.
  • 21:32 And that might sound ironic because he lived here and
  • 21:34 thousands of people saw him rise up to heaven and his disciples
  • 21:38 were all from here, they were Galileans like me.
  • 21:41 They lived at the Sea of Galilee, but I know that there
  • 21:44 is--they just don't know, they've never read the
  • 21:46 New Testament.
  • 21:48 A lot of people say, you know, Israel has rejected the Messiah,
  • 21:51 and I say, well, that's not really true.
  • 21:53 Think about it.
  • 21:55 If they haven't read it, if they haven't read the New Testament,
  • 21:56 they don't read the words of Yeshua.
  • 21:59 All they know is a false narrative that that's some sort
  • 22:01 of Catholic thing and some sort of a pagan thing maybe,
  • 22:04 Christianity, and we don't want any part of that, we want the
  • 22:07 God of Israel.
  • 22:09 And they don't understand this is the Messiah of the God of
  • 22:11 Israel who came to this land and made a covenant of peace with
  • 22:16 this land and with this people and others are welcome to join
  • 22:18 this tree of life, this olive tree of faith, and do.
  • 22:23 And I just wanna say this, in this great time of war, people
  • 22:27 and friends of mine have died, friends of mine have--I've
  • 22:30 buried them, and it's so sad, but this is the time to press
  • 22:35 in, this is the time really to stand with the believers in the
  • 22:38 land who are making a difference in the lives of people.
  • 22:40 This is the time to build trust where you could prove that
  • 22:44 Christianity isn't this group that hates the God of Israel and
  • 22:49 not have any connect to the people or the place where
  • 22:53 God promised.
  • 22:55 And I just wanna say this over Israel if you'll permit me,
  • 22:57 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
  • 22:59 will fear no evil, for you are with me.
  • 23:01 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
  • 23:03 Just that part, you know, this is a dark time, this is a dark
  • 23:08 valley, it is a shadow of death, but yet we gotta fear no evil
  • 23:12 because God is still on the throne.
  • 23:14 He's still the God of Israel.
  • 23:15 He still has a plan for Israel.
  • 23:17 And that's how you know he has a plan for you, because he's
  • 23:19 faithful to his promises for Israel.
  • 23:24 David: I'd like to go back to you guys in your teaching on
  • 23:26 Bible prophecy, how important it is about knowing about it and
  • 23:31 teaching about it.
  • 23:33 Are we talking about that in the church enough?
  • 23:36 Caleb: Well, not enough.
  • 23:38 Obviously, we wouldn't be talking about it if it wasn't
  • 23:40 relevant, because God wants us to know what's going to happen.
  • 23:44 But in this situation, the forewarnings of the prophets
  • 23:48 was to let us know it's time to repent, that we strayed off that
  • 23:52 narrow path that he has for us.
  • 23:54 I remember a story.
  • 23:55 Our good friend Israel Hanna, he's an evangelist who told us
  • 23:58 about God told him it's time to warn America that judgment
  • 24:02 is coming.
  • 24:04 That's a pretty heavy topic.
  • 24:05 Judgment was coming to America, so God said hop in a canoe and
  • 24:08 go down the entire Mississippi river as a sign that judgment
  • 24:11 was coming.
  • 24:13 He was fighting like Jonah, he's like God, I can't do that,
  • 24:14 you know, this is crazy.
  • 24:16 You have to give me the exact date that I'm supposed to go.
  • 24:19 And God said, okay, September 11th, 1999.
  • 24:22 That's when he began his trip and everybody knows what
  • 24:25 happened two years later.
  • 24:27 Kirsten: Yeah, well, you talk about repentance, that's not a
  • 24:31 fun word.
  • 24:32 We like things that are joy of the Lord is your strength, that
  • 24:35 kind of thing, you know, I mean, it's a hard person to say the
  • 24:38 word repent or, and that was the prophet's job in the
  • 24:42 Old Testament.
  • 24:43 It wasn't prophetic words of, like, the Lord is gonna bless
  • 24:46 you and keep you, and there are those but that repentance word,
  • 24:50 that's a tough one to swallow.
  • 24:52 Joshua: Our flesh doesn't like to hear the word "repent," but
  • 24:54 if you think about it, repenting is merciful because if you
  • 24:57 weren't given the option to repent, the other option is
  • 24:59 paying the price for your sin.
  • 25:01 And so, God has consistently shown that like a good Father,
  • 25:04 he's given mankind, womankind, all of us time and time again to
  • 25:08 repent over and over and over again, even when we continue
  • 25:11 our mistakes.
  • 25:12 So, when you look at this big Hebrew word
  • 25:14 that's hard to pronounce.
  • 25:15 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 25:18 Kirsten: You couldn't do that word?
  • 25:20 Joshua: You know, I could but I don't like to spit
  • 25:21 in my beard, right?
  • 25:22 That word "repentance" basically means to go back around to the
  • 25:26 very beginning where you started from and start over.
  • 25:28 So, it's not just saying, oh, I messed up, I gotta, you know,
  • 25:32 I'll try better next time, it literally means when we repent,
  • 25:35 our job is to go back to the starting point where the mistake
  • 25:37 happened and completely change our behavior and attitude as we
  • 25:40 move forward.
  • 25:41 But in doing that, when we do repent, he says I'm gonna
  • 25:44 forgive you and I'm gonna absolve you of everything that
  • 25:46 you've done that was wrong.
  • 25:47 David: So in the church, it's knowing and believing.
  • 25:50 We gotta do that more.
  • 25:51 Caleb: And it's really hard with the church.
  • 25:53 The church has been having difficulty, I think, ever
  • 25:55 since COVID.
  • 25:56 They were shocked when this plague was unleashed on mankind,
  • 25:59 but I believe God gave us forewarning in advance to
  • 26:02 prepare and the church should have been prepared when
  • 26:04 COVID happened.
  • 26:06 We get comments all the time, we're in the tribulation because
  • 26:08 of COVID.
  • 26:09 We're not in the tribulation yet, guys.
  • 26:10 We haven't even endured persecution like Christians on
  • 26:13 the other side of the world.
  • 26:14 But January 28, 2020, Josh and I hopped in our mini Faraday cage,
  • 26:19 it's our minivan as the Bearded Bible Brothers.
  • 26:22 We gave a warning that God gave us to America, that was when the
  • 26:25 Abraham Accords were signed, a peace deal, you know, to divide
  • 26:28 up the lane of Israel, it was Netanyahu and Donald Trump and
  • 26:31 they're gonna divide Judea and Samaria.
  • 26:33 And we warned, hey, Joel 3:2 warns do not divide the land
  • 26:38 of Israel.
  • 26:39 God will cut you in pieces if you try to divide his land, and
  • 26:41 what happened immediately after that?
  • 26:42 Then COVID was unleashed, they both lost their office, their
  • 26:46 seat of power, and it could have been stopped.
  • 26:48 I believe God would have spared the world, the countries, our
  • 26:51 countries of COVID, if we would have walked in obedience to him
  • 26:54 and followed his word.
  • 26:56 Kirsten: That's hefty, that's hefty.
  • 26:58 David: Thank you for your word today.
  • 27:00 We'll be right back.
  • 27:02 David: Our resource this week, the book "Don't Die in Your
  • 27:04 Sins," by Greg Hershberg.
  • 27:07 When asked what happens after we die, people reveal they are
  • 27:10 terrified of dying, yet our Savior teaches there is life
  • 27:14 after death and two destinations to choose from.
  • 27:17 There is something you can do to ensure that when you die you
  • 27:21 will have everlasting life and happiness.
  • 27:23 Contact us and ask for the book "Don't Die in Your Sins."
  • 27:33 Kirsten: Our founder, Zola Levitt, knew the importance of
  • 27:36 filming and teaching in the land of Israel.
  • 27:40 Now, back then it probably was a little less expensive than it is
  • 27:44 right now.
  • 27:45 It's a costly endeavor to take our guys, our team, to the Holy
  • 27:49 Land, but you, our viewers, make that happen.
  • 27:53 So, for your faithful donations we thank you.
  • 27:57 David: What's coming up next?
  • 27:58 Caleb: Next week, the reformation begins, repentance,
  • 28:01 and God moves.
  • 28:03 You're not gonna want to miss it, guys.
  • 28:04 Joshua: So, guys, as we like to say,
  • 28:06 "Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim"
  • 28:07 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 28:11 ♪♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. Worst Grandfather Ever
  2. The Boy King
  3. Forewarnings of Destruction
  4. Beginnings of Reformation
  5. Discovering the Torah
  6. Cleansing the Land
  7. The Bones of the Prophet
  8. The Coming Antichrist
  9. Escaping Coming Judgment

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