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Episode: “Beginnings of Reformation”
From the Western Wall to the ruins of Tel Dan, Joshua and Caleb explore the bar mitzvah tradition and Josiah’s emergence of authority in the kingdom. Without the law as a guidebook, King Josiah begins transforming the country within his scope of knowledge. The brothers’ teaching concludes with a shocking disruption as they experience the horrors of October 7th, the morning of Hamas’ attack.
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.
Transcript
Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “Beginnings of Reformation” (4/9)
- 00:00 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Caleb Colson: We're at the
- 00:43 Western Wall today. It's Bar Mitzvah day, the day that these young kiddos
- 00:45 become men.
- 00:46 It's Jewish tradition at the age of 13 boys become men in the
- 00:50 eyes of God, and typically at this time, you know, life
- 00:54 expectancy was short back then, Josh.
- 00:56 I mean, much shorter than it is today, especially if you were
- 00:58 lower class.
- 01:00 Joshua Colson: Really, brother?
- 01:01 Two minutes in and you're already mocking the
- 01:03 caste system.
- 01:04 Well, guess what?
- 01:06 It's 2024, baby, everybody in America is in the bottom,
- 01:08 thanks, inflation.
- 01:10 Caleb: And when these kids became men, they had to be
- 01:13 established in a trade.
- 01:15 They had to learn a craft.
- 01:16 Sometimes they even started before this age, so that then
- 01:19 when they were thoroughly capable of taking care of their
- 01:21 family, they would get married.
- 01:23 The girls would get married as soon as puberty and the boys
- 01:27 would be a few years older after that.
- 01:28 Joshua: And dating the age of Josiah and his children, we know
- 01:31 that Josiah was married around 12 or 13 and immediately started
- 01:34 having kiddos.
- 01:35 I always like to check back with Jewish historian Josephus,
- 01:39 because usually he's accurate 95% of the time, even though
- 01:41 sometimes the timing of a few events are off, but he had
- 01:44 access to historical documents that we don't have access
- 01:46 to today.
- 01:47 So, in checking out on Josiah, here's what he has to say.
- 01:50 Joshua: Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book X chapter 4, "And
- 01:54 when he, Josiah, was 12 years old, he gave demonstrations of
- 01:57 his religious and righteous behavior, for he brought the
- 01:59 people to a sober way of living, and exhorted them to leave off
- 02:03 the opinion that they had of their idols, because they were
- 02:06 not God's, but to worship their own God, and by reflecting on
- 02:09 the actions of his progenitors, he prudently corrected what they
- 02:11 did wrong, like a very elderly man, like one abundantly able to
- 02:15 understand what was fit to be done."
- 02:20 Caleb: You know, old man Josiah, I actually really like that.
- 02:23 God already bestowed great wisdom and knowledge on Josiah
- 02:26 at such a young age.
- 02:28 You know, he became king at the age of eight, but his hands were
- 02:31 tied to matters of the state.
- 02:33 Governor of--Hilkiah the high priest, and the elders
- 02:36 of the synod had to take care of those matters for him, but he
- 02:39 was trained up to learn how to rule by Achbor his attendant.
- 02:43 And Josephus says that, "And thus, he, Josiah, acted in
- 02:48 following the wisdom and sagacity of his own nature, and
- 02:51 in compliance with the advice and instruction of the elders."
- 02:55 Joshua: However, it wasn't until Josiah was 20 years old that he
- 02:58 was able to fully step into that mantle of ruling as king,
- 03:02 because this was the legal age that Moses had laid down in the
- 03:05 law of accountability that a man was ready to do that.
- 03:07 Caleb: That's right.
- 03:09 Joshua: Don't even get me started on the legal age of
- 03:10 manhood, 20 not even close enough.
- 03:13 Most of the people I know, 37, maybe 42.
- 03:17 They shouldn't be men.
- 03:18 The people I've seen in America, not men.
- 03:21 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:3, "In the eighth year of his
- 03:23 reign, while he, Josiah, was still young, he began to seek
- 03:27 the God of his father David.
- 03:28 In his twelfth year at age 20, he began to purge Judah and
- 03:31 Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles, and idols."
- 03:37 Caleb: Inspired by the words of Zephaniah and Habakkuk, Josiah
- 03:40 hits the ground running and begins reforming the country
- 03:44 within the scope of his knowledge.
- 03:45 Joshua: Remember, he doesn't have access to the books of the
- 03:47 law, he only has access to the previously-spoken prophecies of
- 03:51 the prophets, but he knows enough in his common sense to
- 03:54 know that there's only one true God.
- 03:56 These other people worshiping idols, those are not good.
- 03:58 Caleb: Now, to get a true sense of how Josiah reformed the land,
- 04:01 we decided to look everywhere in the country for evidence that he
- 04:04 didn't do what the Bible says he did.
- 04:07 So, we're gonna go next to an amazing location that's very
- 04:10 famous for idolatry in times past.
- 04:13 Joshua: What, we're going to that?
- 04:15 Caleb: Well, yeah.
- 04:16 Caleb: Yeah, that was me.
- 04:18 I was the guy who made the entire crew go to the worst,
- 04:21 most pagan high places on all the trip.
- 04:24 You know, maybe I wasn't the most popular guy, but I can't
- 04:27 wait to go idol smashing.
- 04:30 Joshua: Brother, put the sword down, we're indoors.
- 04:35 Joshua: The apostasy and idolatry of yesterday isn't that
- 04:38 much different from idolatry today, but Satan's good at
- 04:41 rebranding, confusing man who expects idol worship to be
- 04:45 a literal golden calf that someone bows to.
- 04:49 So, we decided to go on the nose to showcase the evidence of the
- 04:52 origins of idolatry for Judah and the Israelites by traveling
- 04:56 to the furthest northern reaches of the ten tribes territory at
- 05:00 the high place of Tel Dan.
- 05:05 Caleb: And it was here but the poo hit the fan.
- 05:08 Thanks very much, guys, Israelite sinning idolatry,
- 05:11 golden calf stuff.
- 05:14 ♪♪♪
- 05:18 Caleb: Apparently learned we have to hike to our location.
- 05:21 It's not straight off the parking lot.
- 05:24 We're Americans, we're not quite used to this.
- 05:26 Joshua: That's okay, it's only an hour and 45 minutes.
- 05:30 Caleb: We're taking the short path, the short cut, yeah.
- 05:35 ♪♪♪
- 05:43 Caleb: I didn't know we had to do so much walking on this
- 05:46 trip, Josh.
- 05:47 Joshua: I was told that they were going to cart us place to
- 05:50 place and we just had to talk about the Bible.
- 05:53 This cardio stuff was not a part of the plan.
- 05:55 Caleb: I did not prepare for this.
- 05:57 I thought we were above-the-line class, you know, talent,
- 06:01 we don't have to do all this work.
- 06:02 Joshua: Welcome to the line at Israel.
- 06:05 ♪♪♪
- 06:14 Caleb: Well, we finally made it to Tel Dan.
- 06:15 Look at these walls up here.
- 06:17 This was a protective layer for their fortress so that bad guys
- 06:20 couldn't come and invade.
- 06:21 As you can see, they're pretty big.
- 06:23 I don't think I can scale that wall, can you, Josh?
- 06:25 Joshua: It would take a minute for me to find my hops for that.
- 06:28 Probably not gonna happen.
- 06:29 Caleb: Very cool.
- 06:31 ♪♪♪
- 06:40 Joshua: We have finally arrived at the most northern reaches of
- 06:43 Israel bordering Lebanon, and this territory was given to the
- 06:46 tribe of Dan.
- 06:47 They had wonderful water that flowed down from Mount Hermon.
- 06:50 They were situated along major highways so they had trade
- 06:53 routes come by.
- 06:54 The archaeologists, they found something special here, a high
- 06:56 place, a place of worship that proved the intricate stories of
- 07:00 the Bible.
- 07:02 Caleb: That's right, because of King Solomon's despicable sin of
- 07:04 idolatry and refusal to clean house, God stripped the kingdom
- 07:08 from his son, Rehoboam.
- 07:09 He was only allotted two tribes to the south.
- 07:12 To the north was ten tribes of Israel which were given to
- 07:15 Jeroboam ben Nebat.
- 07:17 Now, soon he screwed up because he figured out the only house of
- 07:21 worship, the only temple, was in the territory of Judah, so what
- 07:25 would he do?
- 07:27 Joshua: First Kings 12:26-30, "Jeroboam thought to himself,
- 07:32 'The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
- 07:35 If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the
- 07:38 Lord in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to
- 07:41 their lord, Rehoboam, king of Judah.
- 07:44 They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.'
- 07:46 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves.
- 07:51 He said to the people, 'It is too much for you to go
- 07:54 to Jerusalem.
- 07:55 Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'
- 07:59 One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
- 08:02 And this thing became a sin, the people came to worship the one
- 08:06 at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other."
- 08:11 Joshua: So, this is where it all went down, a former high place
- 08:14 for the Canaanites.
- 08:16 Jeroboam decides that he's gonna build a great place of
- 08:18 worship atop those ruins dedicated to the golden calf
- 08:22 goddess of the Egyptians, Hathor.
- 08:26 Caleb: I admit, I was a bit disappointed to find no altar or
- 08:31 golden calf at Tel Dan.
- 08:34 Now we can't go idol smashing.
- 08:38 Joshua: I don't know, Brother, I'm no genius, I thought maybe
- 08:41 we'd learned our lesson from Mount Sinai with the golden
- 08:43 calf, but not.
- 08:45 Caleb: A lot of death and destruction happened because of
- 08:47 that event.
- 08:48 Now, here, as you can see this mock replica of the altars where
- 08:51 they found that Jeroboam built that brazen altar, and upon that
- 08:55 platform where the golden calf was situated.
- 08:58 Now, many archaeologists consider and believe that it's
- 09:01 possible that King Josiah came here when he was cleansing
- 09:05 the land.
- 09:07 ♪♪♪
- 09:14 Caleb: Second Kings 23:19, "Josiah also removed all the
- 09:18 houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria
- 09:22 which the kings of Israel had made provoking the Lord."
- 09:27 ♪♪♪
- 09:38 Joshua: Now, there has been some debate amongst scholars as
- 09:40 to whether or not Josiah made it here because of the discovery of
- 09:43 standing stones at the gates.
- 09:45 Now, 2 Kings 23:8 says that Josiah tore down the standing
- 09:49 stones at the high places.
- 09:50 Now, the Assyrians had destroyed the place and it was covered in
- 09:54 ash, so they think maybe he missed Tel Dan because of that.
- 09:58 Caleb: But the destructive evidence of this site is in
- 10:01 compliance with how King Josiah desecrated the high places.
- 10:05 Just west of here is the Naphtali Ridge that acted as the
- 10:08 border to the territory of Dan, and thus when we read in 2
- 10:12 Chronicles about Josiah going as far as Naphtali into the ruins,
- 10:16 he most probably did come here.
- 10:18 Joshua: That makes sense.
- 10:21 Joshua: Second Chronicles 34:6-7, "In the town of
- 10:26 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali , and in the
- 10:30 ruins around them, he, Josiah, tore down the altars and the
- 10:34 Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to
- 10:38 pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel.
- 10:40 Then he went back to Jerusalem."
- 10:44 ♪♪♪
- 10:48 Caleb: Now, this is the part of the story that I personally
- 10:51 find amazing.
- 10:52 King Josiah wasn't just atoning for the sins of the Kingdom of
- 10:55 Judah, but for his brothers to the north.
- 10:58 Even though most of the Israelites were long gone and
- 11:00 held captive in Assyria, he made it his mission to go in and
- 11:04 atone for their sins and remove that curse that was placed on
- 11:09 that territory because of the idolatry, because of the
- 11:12 defilement, because of the perversion that they acted in
- 11:16 in worshiping demons.
- 11:19 Caleb: Second chronicles 34:4-5, "Under his, Josiah's, direction
- 11:25 the altars of the Baals were torn down.
- 11:27 He cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them and
- 11:31 smashed the Asherah poles and the idols.
- 11:34 These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of
- 11:38 those who had sacrificed to them.
- 11:40 He burned the bones of a priest on their altars, and so he
- 11:44 purged Judah and Jerusalem."
- 11:48 Joshua: And Josiah was literally 20 years old, and the maturity
- 11:52 level spiritually of this 20 year old was far beyond most
- 11:55 20 year olds today.
- 11:56 No offense, guys.
- 11:58 Joshua: You know what?
- 11:59 I take it back.
- 12:00 Okay, 20 year olds, welcome to manhood.
- 12:02 Definitely looks like it with your super thin mustaches.
- 12:03 Nobody's ever done that before.
- 12:04 Oh, wait, you're not allowed in school zones,
- 12:06 especially in panel vans.
- 12:07 I wouldn't go ahead and choose--
- 12:09 Caleb: Josh, that's our target demographic.
- 12:11 You can't make fun of it.
- 12:13 Joshua: God has chosen you for such a time as this at the exact
- 12:16 age of 20, congratulations.
- 12:18 Welcome to manhood.
- 12:21 Joshua: But I always thought that the timing was a little
- 12:22 interesting at these reforms, because God brings another young
- 12:26 man to his life, probably only 13 years old, to be a prophet
- 12:30 to Josiah.
- 12:31 Jeremiah 1:1-2 says, "The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
- 12:37 of the priests who were of Anathoth in the land of
- 12:39 Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of
- 12:42 Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
- 12:46 of his reign."
- 12:48 Caleb: Now, Jeremiah the famous prophet was commissioned by God
- 12:51 one year into Josiah's first reformation, and Josiah did all
- 12:55 this work cleansing the land, and here's what God said to
- 12:58 approve of his work.
- 13:00 Joshua: Jeremiah 1:14-16 says, "Then the Lord said to me, 'Out
- 13:04 of the north calamity shall break forth on all the
- 13:07 inhabitants of the land.
- 13:09 For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the
- 13:11 north,' says the Lord.
- 13:13 'They shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance
- 13:16 of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all
- 13:20 around, and against all the cities of Judah.
- 13:22 I will utter My judgments against them concerning all
- 13:25 their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense
- 13:29 to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'"
- 13:33 Caleb: What a devastating message.
- 13:35 Not you did a good job, but judgment is coming.
- 13:39 And here we get a sense of why God chose Jeremiah to be
- 13:43 so young.
- 13:44 I mean, here Josiah was 21 years old and he probably remembered
- 13:47 when he was just a boy and his hands were tied and he wasn't
- 13:50 allowed to do everything that God had placed in his heart, but
- 13:54 that was intentional by God.
- 13:55 And most rabbis believe that Josiah authenticated Jeremiah as
- 14:00 a true prophet.
- 14:02 That he paid them the wages of the prophet.
- 14:04 That he gave him a residence in Jerusalem, because as soon as
- 14:07 Jeremiah started to prophesy, his own family disowned him.
- 14:10 Joshua: I love Josiah's heart towards Jeremiah, because he
- 14:13 never silences him, he doesn't chastise him, he doesn't say
- 14:16 stop, you're young, you don't know what you're doing, he lets
- 14:18 him speak the word and he welcomed from God in his limited
- 14:22 knowledge of the law when he was wrong, he welcomed
- 14:24 God's reproof.
- 14:26 He was always ready to do the right thing.
- 14:27 Caleb: Guys, some people say we need a revival.
- 14:30 I don't think a revival is enough.
- 14:31 Some people say we need a great awakening like times past, but
- 14:35 first we need to be awakened to the concept of sin.
- 14:38 But truly, like Josiah, we need a great reformation, changing
- 14:44 from this point on, turning our backs on everything and
- 14:47 continuing on the path to righteousness.
- 14:51 ♪♪♪
- 14:57 Caleb: Here we are today in modern Israel.
- 14:58 Behind me is the second largest mosque in all of the country.
- 15:03 The first is Al-Aqsa mosque, and though it's peaceful right now,
- 15:07 Josh, you hear the birds chirping, it's shabbat,
- 15:10 elsewhere in Israel around the Gaza Strip, hundreds of rockets
- 15:13 are being fired off into peaceful Israeli villages and
- 15:17 they are going into bomb shelters.
- 15:18 I find it heartbreaking the thing that people do in the name
- 15:22 of these false pagan gods, which is why we're supposed to serve
- 15:25 the one true God.
- 15:26 Joshua: The world today is in just about as a place as it was
- 15:30 back then.
- 15:31 Back then, the streets were adorned with idols, they were
- 15:34 adorned with pagan symbols, and at least back then when they saw
- 15:39 it, they noticed that and they cringed.
- 15:41 But how many times have you walked past or driven past
- 15:44 a mosque in your town or a Buddhist temple or a Masonic
- 15:48 lodge or any of these other shrines to other gods and
- 15:51 thought nothing of it?
- 15:52 You simply drove by.
- 15:54 Or maybe you thought because you go to a synagogue or you go to
- 15:57 a Christian church, your church is perfect and there's nothing
- 16:00 at all that could be going wrong inside of it.
- 16:02 You become complacent, and because of that, the church,
- 16:07 the body of Christ, Christianity, is no longer the
- 16:11 leading religion in the world.
- 16:12 In fact, the leading growing religion in the world is
- 16:15 Islam, why?
- 16:16 Because their people are so dedicated to the worship and the
- 16:20 faith of a false demon god, Allah.
- 16:24 So, what are we supposed to do, you say?
- 16:26 I can't stand up and say anything against it.
- 16:29 What if I get retaliated against?
- 16:31 What if they shut down my Instagram for speaking the truth
- 16:33 and I can't tweet anymore?
- 16:35 If it's even called that.
- 16:36 I'm glad you asked.
- 16:37 First Peter 3:14 says, "But even if I should suffer for
- 16:41 righteousness' sake, you are blessed.
- 16:44 'And do not be afraid of their threats nor be troubled,' but
- 16:47 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts."
- 16:50 Trust me, I get that it can be scary.
- 16:53 I remember as a kid never ever wanting to be a prophet or have
- 16:55 the gift of a prophet.
- 16:57 I remember reading all the stories about their job.
- 16:59 Their job was to go tell everybody you're doing this
- 17:01 wrong and you need to repent, and if you don't repent this is
- 17:04 what's gonna happen.
- 17:05 Nobody wants to be that guy because nobody wants to be
- 17:08 ostracized or hated for those things that they have to say,
- 17:11 it's true.
- 17:13 But no matter how bad you think the outcome in this life is for
- 17:16 standing up for the truth, the outcome in the life to come for
- 17:19 doing nothing is far worse than anything anybody could do.
- 17:24 In this life there's literally nothing that they can do to you.
- 17:28 Yes, they can hurt your physical body, but you're not a physical
- 17:31 body, you are an eternal spirit being.
- 17:34 You will live eternally with the Father, and no matter what they
- 17:38 try to bring against you in this life, he stands for you and he
- 17:42 defends you.
- 17:43 When I look at the life of Josiah, do you know what the
- 17:45 most sobering thing is to me?
- 17:47 This man who started his kingship at age eight, who then
- 17:50 went for 31 more years reforming the land to the degree that we
- 17:55 have not seen anybody else do, is that he dedicated his life to
- 17:58 reforming the church, not the lost.
- 18:02 Let that sink in while 12 mind-blown emojis pop up on your
- 18:05 social media.
- 18:06 His life was dedicated to reforming the body of Christ
- 18:11 in essence.
- 18:12 The bombs are going off behind me right now, you can hear it.
- 18:15 We're living in the last time, in the last age.
- 18:18 You don't have time anymore to say it's not my job.
- 18:22 We don't have time to live in complacency and say we love
- 18:25 Yeshua on a Sunday or on a Wednesday, but then go live like
- 18:29 the world and hide in complacency every time you've
- 18:32 been called to speak the truth in love.
- 18:34 And those who don't know, those who are sitting there when these
- 18:38 sirens go off and may lose their life today, will spend an
- 18:41 eternity separated from the Father.
- 18:44 Reform begins today, and it begins with you, and all he's
- 18:48 asked you to do is stand for him, stand for him the way he
- 18:52 died for you with his head held high saying, "That is my Son,"
- 18:59 just as we're called to say he is my Father.
- 19:04 Mark 8:36 says, "For what shall it profit a man to gain the
- 19:07 whole world and forfeit his soul?"
- 19:10 Today is your day.
- 19:12 Today is your day to choose.
- 19:15 [siren blaring]
- 19:21 ♪♪♪
- 19:31 ♪♪♪
- 19:41 ♪♪♪
- 19:51 ♪♪♪
- 20:01 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 20:06 ♪♪♪
- 20:16 ♪♪♪
- 20:26 ♪♪♪
- 20:38 [shouting]
- 20:44 [explosions]
- 20:47 ♪♪♪
- 20:57 ♪♪♪
- 20:59 [Caleb singing in Hebrew]
- 21:11 Joshua: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
- 21:15 You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all
- 21:19 of your soul, with all of your strength.
- 21:24 ♪♪♪
- 21:31 Oliver Melnick: You know, Jewish people speak of October 7th like
- 21:34 holocaust 2.0 or second holocaust.
- 21:37 Unfortunately, I mean, I understand the gravity of it now
- 21:40 from a theological perspective.
- 21:42 We know that during the tribulation, two-thirds of the
- 21:45 Jewish people, Zachariah 13:8-9, are going to perish.
- 21:49 We know that, so that's gonna be worse than the first holocaust,
- 21:52 but this, what happened in Israel on October 7th, we know
- 21:56 now was the largest, the heaviest death toll of Jewish
- 22:02 people in one day since the holocaust.
- 22:05 And what it has done, it's kind of scary even every time I see
- 22:09 it, but even beyond the normalization of anti-Semitism,
- 22:11 it is almost like anti-Semitism is becoming ready for that word,
- 22:15 because I don't even like using it, trendy.
- 22:19 Caleb: It's cool to hate Jews now.
- 22:21 Oliver: It's becoming cool to hate Jews.
- 22:22 It's trendy, and I never thought that we would get there before
- 22:27 the Rapture.
- 22:28 You know, like, you know, I expected those things to happen
- 22:31 during the Tribulation, and especially the second half of
- 22:33 the Tribulation, and we know from the Bible also specifically
- 22:37 that the whole world is gonna go against Israel.
- 22:41 If what's important to people is how many followers they have
- 22:43 because it makes you feel important, then you wanna be
- 22:47 controversial saying something about Israel or the Jews,
- 22:50 because biblical truth does not get you a lot of followers,
- 22:52 unfortunately, it never will.
- 22:54 It's lonely at the top, you know, with, you know.
- 22:57 So, yeah, people, but you know, I look at the youth and the way
- 23:00 they've been walking on campuses and streets and they keep
- 23:03 screaming, you know, "From the river to the sea, Palestine
- 23:05 shall be free."
- 23:07 There was a guy who actually did some interviewing, I don't know
- 23:09 if you saw the video, he did some interviewing on the streets
- 23:11 and on campuses, and he asked the people what river and
- 23:16 what sea?
- 23:18 They didn't know what river, they didn't know what sea.
- 23:20 Well, the river in Gaza.
- 23:23 It was embarrassing, and these young people are screaming that
- 23:28 slogan because they think it's the expression of social
- 23:32 justice, but really from the River Jordan to the sea, the
- 23:35 Mediterranean, means from, you know, from east to west, west to
- 23:40 east, north, south, wipe all the Jews off the map of Israel.
- 23:44 And you know, no Jews allowed, kill them all.
- 23:50 Kirsten Hart: In your teaching today, you were speaking about
- 23:52 Josiah's reforms, but what was he reforming to?
- 23:56 Is kind of crazy because he didn't even have a copy of the
- 23:59 scriptures, that wasn't there, it wasn't in his hands.
- 24:03 Caleb: That's true, but God still sent his prophets.
- 24:05 Zephaniah was around at this time, he was forewarning of
- 24:08 destruction coming from the north, of the
- 24:11 Babylonians coming.
- 24:13 People had an idea, I mean, they were the people of the book,
- 24:16 they knew what that book originally stood for even though
- 24:19 they did not have it.
- 24:20 They knew what the Temple Mount was there to do, to worship
- 24:23 Yahweh and not to worship these other gods, but they were still
- 24:26 steeped in that ideology and it's so sobering, because as you
- 24:33 saw in that last segment, Josh was in front of that mosque in
- 24:35 Abu Ghosh, and as he's teaching about this moment in time where
- 24:40 they followed after idolatry, here is a pagan shrine to Allah,
- 24:44 this pagan god.
- 24:46 Avodah Zarah is this act in Hebrew of idolatry following
- 24:51 after these other gods, and we were living it out and seeing
- 24:54 that cycle of sin and and judgment and these four nations
- 24:58 invading as we were right there.
- 25:00 Kirsten: Once again, paralleling that time with modern times,
- 25:04 it's not that different, is it?
- 25:06 Joshua: It isn't that different, and we like to pretend that it's
- 25:09 different because it was so long ago, but mankind is the same
- 25:13 person yesterday as it is today.
- 25:15 We deal with the same problems, we have the same enemy, but we
- 25:18 have the same God.
- 25:19 And if you look today at what's going on and you don't think
- 25:22 that we're facing the same types of issues, morality is at the
- 25:25 center of everything right now.
- 25:27 It's 2024, we're about to have an election happen that we are
- 25:30 having to decide who is going to run this country, and the issues
- 25:33 that are at stake have escalated even farther than when I
- 25:37 started voting.
- 25:38 I remember my first vote at 18, you know, the things in the
- 25:41 docket now are so far worse.
- 25:43 This is a time period now where somebody needs to stand up and
- 25:47 call for reform.
- 25:48 We don't have a monarchy, right?
- 25:50 So, we don't have that ability to do that, but we each have the
- 25:53 ability as individuals to stand for the truth and say we're not
- 25:56 gonna give in to what we're being told and continue in this
- 25:58 sin, and I believe conviction is something, you know, that what's
- 26:02 happening isn't right, even if you seared your conscience to
- 26:05 that and seared the Holy Spirit.
- 26:06 So, how do you change?
- 26:08 The first thing is turning around and doing the opposite of
- 26:10 what you're doing now.
- 26:11 Once they did that, then they got the scripture, then they had
- 26:14 the detail, and then he doubled down even more on making it
- 26:18 right as opposed to going, oh, I don't know, that might be too
- 26:20 hard for us.
- 26:22 I don't wanna start that diet today, it's a little restrictive
- 26:23 and I've got pizza night on Thursday, or I don't wanna start
- 26:26 doing what's right because my favorite show is in mid-season
- 26:29 and I can't stop watching those episodes, I'll just turn it off
- 26:31 on the bad stuff.
- 26:32 We hold on to it and we don't make that change because we
- 26:35 like sin.
- 26:37 Kirsten: I don't like sin.
- 26:39 No, I mean, but you're right, you're right.
- 26:43 And I know you speak about America.
- 26:45 Our program goes across the world.
- 26:47 You might be in a completely different country.
- 26:49 The same message though to every country on the planet is that
- 26:53 the Word of God wants to refine us and clean us out.
- 26:57 Caleb: It's a worldwide message because we're facing
- 26:59 worldwide judgment.
- 27:00 We are in the last days now and I believe Babylon the Great is
- 27:03 coming, that final government of the beast, and just like Josiah
- 27:07 did, I believe there's a way to push back on that coming
- 27:10 of Babylon.
- 27:12 It all starts with repentance.
- 27:13 David Hart: Repentance, that's good.
- 27:15 We'll be right back.
- 27:17 Caleb: Josh, come on, it's just a college campus, what are you
- 27:21 afraid of?
- 27:22 Joshua: It's not just a college campus.
- 27:23 If you watch the news, do you see what they're doing
- 27:25 to Jewish people on college campuses?
- 27:26 It's not a safe place.
- 27:27 Caleb: That's true, but let's remedy that.
- 27:29 Our beloved viewers, we ask that you continue to give to this
- 27:31 ministry that has been preaching the gospel of Yeshua for
- 27:34 45-plus years.
- 27:35 Although Satan may move on the hearts of the world to hate the
- 27:37 Jewish people, we will continue to teach about God's
- 27:40 unconditional love toward the Jews and his eternal covenants
- 27:43 with Israel.
- 27:44 Joshua: If you donate to this ministry, you're gonna receive
- 27:45 two tracks, one for you and one for a friend.
- 27:47 It teaches about the unholy, unnatural origins of
- 27:50 anti-Semitism and it cancels the disinformation that's happening
- 27:53 today on college campuses like this.
- 27:56 Caleb: I see what you did there, pretty smart, pretty hip.
- 28:00 David: Many places that you see the guys teaching, we couldn't
- 28:03 do that without your help and we just wanna say thank you
- 28:05 so much.
- 28:07 Joshua: As we leave you now, sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
- 28:09 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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