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• 00:07 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today for our
• 00:08 series "Josiah and the Last Reformation."
• 00:11 Kirsten Hart: King Josiah has been reforming the nation, and
• 00:14 today you'll see that he has taken it upon himself to repair
• 00:18 the fallen temple on the Temple Mount.
• 00:21 David: Joshua and Caleb are on location right now atop the
• 00:25 Temple Mount.
• 00:26 Let's go there right now.
• 00:28 ♪♪♪
• 00:38 ♪♪♪
• 00:48 ♪♪♪
• 00:50 Joshua Colson: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Temple Mount
• 00:52 time again.
• 00:53 As usual, we play the game, "How long can we teach the
• 00:55 Bible before getting caught?"
• 00:57 Stay tuned to the end of this episode for our grand finale.
• 01:00 Now we've reached the pinnacle of our story.
• 01:03 The part of the story that everybody knows in synagogue
• 01:05 and church.
• 01:06 It's the part where once was lost is now found, and it
• 01:10 changes everything.
• 01:12 Caleb Colson: And this is where it all went down, 622 BC.
• 01:16 Six years into Josiah's reformation, he decided to
• 01:19 repair the temple of the Lord.
• 01:21 Well, it had gotten into disrepair.
• 01:24 Hundred years prior, King Hezekiah had enlarged it.
• 01:28 The Mount had really made it pretty, but people had been
• 01:31 focused on demon gods, and it just--it needed some help.
• 01:36 Joshua: Boy howdy.
• 01:38 Caleb: But it's very interesting that most people think that
• 01:43 where the dome of the rock is is where the holy of holies is on
• 01:46 that rock in there.
• 01:48 We believe it's at the dome of the spirits 'cause it's in
• 01:51 direct alignment with the eastern gate, thus they would
• 01:54 have to look straight through the eastern gate when they
• 01:56 performed the red heifer sacrifice in the Mount of Olives
• 01:59 in order to look into the holy of holies.
• 02:04 Caleb: Interesting to note: since we filmed this episode,
• 02:07 we've had the opportunity to speak to renowned archaeologist
• 02:10 Dr. Randall Price.
• 02:11 He believes that the current eastern gate is not the location
• 02:14 of the original but that it lied further south and under the wall
• 02:18 and that they found remnants of it even today.
• 02:21 If that is the case, then Dr. Price is correct in assuming
• 02:25 that the current location of the dome of Iraq is where the second
• 02:28 temple resided.
• 02:30 We'll have to investigate these claims further.
• 02:34 Josephus's "Antiquities of the Jews," book 10, chapter 4. "He,"
• 02:38 Josiah, "also sent over all the country, and desired such as
• 02:42 pleased, to bring gold and silver for the repairs of the
• 02:45 temple, according to every ones inclinations and abilities."
• 02:51 Joshua: It was an offering that Josiah was requesting the
• 02:53 people, not a demand.
• 02:54 He wanted to give them an opportunity to be a part and to
• 02:57 be blessed by God.
• 02:59 I'm sure he could have afforded it on his own.
• 03:00 He didn't need the money.
• 03:02 It was about helping them get to the point where they had
• 03:04 committed their heart, soul, and mind to what God was having
• 03:08 them do.
• 03:11 2 Chronicles 34:8-9, "In the eighteenth year of Josiah's
• 03:15 reign, to purify the land of the temple, he sent Shaphan son of
• 03:18 Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of
• 03:23 Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
• 03:28 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money
• 03:31 that had been brought into the temple of God, which the Levites
• 03:34 who were the gatekeepers had collected from the people of
• 03:37 Manasseh, Ephraim and the entire remnant of Israel and from all
• 03:41 the people of Judah and Benjamin and all the inhabitants
• 03:43 of Jerusalem."
• 03:45 Caleb: This is, guys, one of the most telling parts of the story.
• 03:49 There are survivors of the ten tribes of Israel, a remnant that
• 03:52 had returned to the land.
• 03:54 Josephus says that they escaped during all the chaos in Assyria.
• 03:58 Somebody even survived and were still there.
• 04:02 And you know that Josiah was listening to Jeremiah's commands
• 04:06 by God to preach to them, to witness to them, to encourage
• 04:10 them, and we know that they were part of that group
• 04:15 that gave an offering to the Lord to repair the temple.
• 04:19 Joshua: 2 Kings 2:22.
• 04:20 Josiah wanted to show his trust for these workers, these masons
• 04:24 who would be repairing the temple.
• 04:25 Instead of lording over them, he wanted them to know that he
• 04:28 believed that they would do what was right in the eyes of God.
• 04:32 That's awesome.
• 04:34 2 Kings 22:7.
• 04:37 Josiah said, "But they need not account for the money entrusted
• 04:41 to them, because they are honest in their dealings."
• 04:45 2 Chronicles 34:12 then says, "The workers
• 04:48 labored faithfully."
• 04:52 Caleb: Guys, Josiah was right to trust the builders.
• 04:55 They did their job well.
• 04:57 And after the repairs were complete, they had a surplus
• 05:00 of money.
• 05:01 So they decided to bring all those funds out of the temple,
• 05:04 and they're gonna put 'em to good use by creating new
• 05:06 articles for the temple, refabricating some of the old
• 05:10 ones that had gone to damage and disrepair.
• 05:12 But while Hilkiah, the high priest, was rummaging around in
• 05:17 the hidden alcoves of the temple, he discovered something
• 05:19 that would change history.
• 05:21 Something that had been lost for ages.
• 05:23 Something that they thought Manasseh had destroyed all of.
• 05:27 Listen to this scripture.
• 05:30 2 Chronicles 34:14, "While they were bringing out the money that
• 05:34 had been taken into the temple of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest
• 05:38 found the Book of the Law of the Lord that had been given
• 05:40 through Moses."
• 05:43 Not to ruin the momentum of the story, but
• 05:45 there's a few points we need to touch on.
• 05:46 Number one, that will probably be the last time we're allowed
• 05:50 to teach on the Temple Mount.
• 05:51 We may have made the covenant "Do not admit" list, but number
• 05:55 two, the next teaching you're about to see actually takes
• 05:58 place after the war of Hamas began, 'cause we do shoot these
• 06:02 things out of sequence.
• 06:03 You know, we wouldn't be dumb enough to go on the Temple Mount
• 06:06 after the war of Hamas began, would we?
• 06:10 Joshua: Hey, Caleb, I got that disguise for the Temple Mount
• 06:13 that we're going tomorrow.
• 06:14 Caleb: Shh.
• 06:18 Joshua: Brother, where we at?
• 06:19 Caleb: We are at the kotel, the Western Wall.
• 06:22 There's not a lot of people here 'cause, yeah, there's war.
• 06:25 This is the emptiest we've seen it because of Sukkot and
• 06:28 everything--it was just packed.
• 06:29 We're about to go into the tunnels beneath the Western
• 06:32 Wall, where the ancient Roman streets were.
• 06:35 So this ought to be interesting.
• 06:37 Joshua: And ancient.
• 06:39 Caleb: Ancient.
• 06:42 Caleb: We are here under the kotel, the Western Wall, in a
• 06:45 myriad of passages that, as you can see, it's dark, but these
• 06:50 are the original walls and structures that Herod the Great
• 06:53 made from his complex.
• 06:55 And as you can see, there's underground cities, if you will.
• 07:00 There's Roman streets.
• 07:01 There's aqueducts.
• 07:03 There's even a synagogue.
• 07:04 But just as we are hidden beneath the wall here, so was
• 07:08 the Book of the Law hidden from Josiah and the people.
• 07:11 Joshua: Can you imagine how close we came to not having the
• 07:13 Book of the Law at all?
• 07:14 One copy left found.
• 07:16 The Ten Commandments--had that not been, we might not have had
• 07:19 God's law today, which is crazy to think about.
• 07:26 Caleb: "Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king,"
• 07:29 Josiah, "'Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.'
• 07:32 And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
• 07:35 When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes.
• 07:38 He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son
• 07:42 of Micah, Shaphan the secretary and Asiah the king's attendant:
• 07:46 'Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel
• 07:49 and Judah about what is written in this book that has
• 07:53 been found.
• 07:54 Great is the Lord's anger that is poured out on us because
• 07:57 those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the
• 07:59 Lord; they have not acted in accordance with all that is
• 08:02 written in this book.'"
• 08:05 Joshua: This was serious.
• 08:07 Josiah was shaken.
• 08:08 It finally made sense to him why Jeremiah kept prophesyin' doom
• 08:12 and gloom was gonna happen.
• 08:13 He'd finally seen the Law.
• 08:15 He'd finally seen all of the things--the Moadim, the seven
• 08:19 feasts--and he realized, "We're guilty.
• 08:22 We've messed it all up."
• 08:23 But he made a decision to intercede on behalf of God, not
• 08:26 just for Judah but for the other remnant of Israel.
• 08:29 Caleb: So the king needed a prophet to tell him the Word of
• 08:32 the Lord.
• 08:34 At the moment, Jeremiah was missing, probably to the north,
• 08:37 prophesyin' to the remnant of Israel.
• 08:39 So what did they do?
• 08:40 They couldn't find Zephaniah.
• 08:42 The attendant of the king, who was a royal wardrobe keeper, was
• 08:45 named Harhas.
• 08:46 But he had son who is married to Huldah.
• 08:49 She was a neviah, a prophetess.
• 08:51 So the gang goes to Huldah, the neviah, to
• 08:53 hear of a Word from the Lord.
• 08:55 This is what she said.
• 09:00 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 34:24-25, "This is what the Lord says: I
• 09:04 am going to bring disaster on this place and its people--all
• 09:07 the curses written in the book that has been read in the
• 09:09 presence of the king Judah.
• 09:10 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other
• 09:13 gods, and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made."
• 09:21 Joshua: Well, that's depressing.
• 09:23 Who wants to be the guy that delivers that message to Josiah?
• 09:26 You see, in the last verse, God chops him down a
• 09:29 peg or two, all right?
• 09:30 He sends the prophet to her--to him, and Huldah prophesies,
• 09:34 "Tell that man who sent you to me."
• 09:36 Not "Deliver this message to the king."
• 09:38 Not "Please bring it to him."
• 09:39 "That normal guy over there, give that message to him."
• 09:42 Caleb: God wasn't trying to insult Josiah.
• 09:44 He was trying to prove to the Jews that no man, not even the
• 09:47 king, was above Torah.
• 09:48 That all would be held accountable if they
• 09:50 trespassed it.
• 09:52 This was important.
• 09:53 All were held guilty, and all needed atonement.
• 09:59 2 Chronicles 34:27-28.
• 10:02 "But Josiah, because your heart was responsive and you humbled
• 10:06 yourself before God and tore your robes and wept in my
• 10:09 presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.
• 10:12 Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be
• 10:16 buried in peace.
• 10:17 Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on
• 10:20 this place and on those who live here."
• 10:26 Joshua: So how would you respond if God had said that to you?
• 10:28 Fear, anger, frustration?
• 10:31 How 'bout this one: "You know, I'm not really gonna change what
• 10:34 I'm doin', 'cause he said I'd be spared, so it doesn't really
• 10:36 affect me."
• 10:37 It's funny because I think probably a lot of modern pastors
• 10:40 would say that because they're focused on theirselves.
• 10:43 Caleb: But not Josiah.
• 10:45 He knew God's Words were true, and he wanted to get his people
• 10:48 a fighting chance at righteousness.
• 10:50 He wanted to train them up to possibly get an extension of
• 10:53 judgment for them.
• 10:54 Now, that is a real king.
• 10:58 Joshua: What we've learned through crawling through all
• 11:00 these ancient tunnels of Judean streets is: they weren't
• 11:02 that tall.
• 11:04 We, however, are tall.
• 11:06 King Josiah, us.
• 11:09 It doesn't work well.
• 11:10 Hopefully we don't get too claustrophobic.
• 11:14 2 Kings 23:1-3, "Then the king called together all the elders
• 11:18 of Judah and Jerusalem.
• 11:19 He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah,
• 11:22 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and prophets--all
• 11:25 the people from the least to the greatest.
• 11:27 He read in their hearings all the words of the Book of
• 11:30 the Covenant.
• 11:31 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the
• 11:33 presence of the Lord--to follow the Lord and keep his commands,
• 11:36 statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus
• 11:39 confirming the word of the covenant written in this book.
• 11:42 Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant."
• 11:47 Caleb: Now, Josiah himself in this position of authority read
• 11:51 the Torah to all the people.
• 11:52 He pledged himself to God, and then they pledged themselves
• 11:56 to God.
• 11:57 This was very important.
• 11:58 He was their representative, and then they followed as well.
• 12:01 And then I believe he read a specific passage in Deuteronomy
• 12:05 that changed his heart and his life forever.
• 12:07 Let's read that passage.
• 12:09 Deuteronomy 17:18-20, "Now when he," a king, "sits on the throne
• 12:14 of his kingdom, he is to write for himself a copy of this Torah
• 12:17 on a scroll, from what is before the Levitical kohanim.
• 12:20 It will remain with him, and he will read in it all the days of
• 12:23 his life, in order to learn to Adonai his God and keep all the
• 12:27 words of this Torah and these statutes.
• 12:29 Then his heart will not be exalted above his brothers, and
• 12:32 he will not turn from the commandment to the right or to
• 12:35 the left--so that he may prolong his days in his
• 12:37 kingship, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel."
• 12:45 Joshua: So what do you think Josiah does when he finds
• 12:47 this out?
• 12:48 He finally has the playbook.
• 12:50 He goes full speed.
• 12:51 He decides to purify the land of Judah, to purify the remnants.
• 12:54 You'll have no idea what this guy does next.
• 12:56 We're gonna check it out next week.
• 13:01 Caleb: The question is, how far would you go to serve the Lord?
• 13:04 What sacrifice would you make?
• 13:06 To what depths would you descend?
• 13:08 How high a mount would you climb?
• 13:11 That is the question of the day.
• 13:13 The purpose behind this entire series.
• 13:14 The reason why God brought us to this message in the first place.
• 13:21 Is it possible today to push back God's prophetic timeline?
• 13:26 Is it possible to hold off Babylon the Great's coming for
• 13:31 one more year, for one more month, one more day?
• 13:35 Can our repentance now, if we truly turn back to God, grant us
• 13:39 that reprieve that we've been hoping for--a revival, a great
• 13:43 awakening, a great reformation-- or is it too late?
• 13:46 Are we too far past that precipice, that point of
• 13:49 no return?
• 13:51 Even as we speak, the sirens are going off behind us, and they're
• 13:54 probably gonna usher us into a bunker now.
• 13:57 But we know time is short and judgment is coming to America
• 14:02 and Israel.
• 14:03 Joshua: What would you do?
• 14:05 That's the question, and it's haunting.
• 14:08 It's easy for us to say, "Oh, I'd be like Peter.
• 14:10 I'd jump up and I'd say, 'I'd die for you, Lord.
• 14:12 I promise I would.'"
• 14:14 But the thing is, he's not asking you to die for him.
• 14:16 He's asking you something much harder.
• 14:18 He wants you to live for him.
• 14:22 Romans 12:1 says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
• 14:24 mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living," not dead,
• 14:28 "sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
• 14:30 reasonable service."
• 14:33 Guys, we've said it already.
• 14:36 Time is short.
• 14:37 We actually were just ushered off of this location because the
• 14:40 sirens went off again.
• 14:42 Missiles have been fired today multiple times.
• 14:44 There is war here in Israel.
• 14:46 This alone adds to the evidence that we need to make a
• 14:51 difference and a change today, to not let time pass us
• 14:55 by anymore.
• 14:57 You know, we look at the time of Josiah
• 14:58 and we think, "It's a little bit different."
• 15:00 You know, it was.
• 15:01 They were probably ahead of us a little bit morally than we have
• 15:03 dropped down to today, and they actually had an excuse because
• 15:07 Manasseh had burned the Torah.
• 15:09 They didn't actually know what the law was.
• 15:11 But the second, the second that Josiah found the law, he humbled
• 15:15 himself, and he repented, and he immediately initialized change
• 15:20 and reformation.
• 15:21 Now, you say, "We haven't done what they've done.
• 15:25 We haven't burned the law." Have we not?
• 15:26 We've taken it out of courthouses.
• 15:28 We've taken it off--out of prayer in school.
• 15:30 We've removed it from--anything that says "America" and "God,"
• 15:34 we've done our best to cut it out.
• 15:36 Now, this didn't happen just yesterday.
• 15:39 This is something that's been happening slowly over years.
• 15:41 We've talked about before how Satan just slowly pushes that
• 15:44 line, slowly gets us acclimated.
• 15:46 Slowly, slowly, slowly.
• 15:47 And you say, "Well, what can I do to change?
• 15:49 I'm not a politician.
• 15:50 I'm not the president. I'd vote, but it's all rigged.
• 15:52 It's not gonna make any difference."
• 15:54 Every person that says that is another person that's not
• 15:56 making change.
• 15:58 And yet the wicked stand up boldly and proclaim their lies
• 16:01 and their sin and their idolatry and their pagan views, and we
• 16:04 wonder why we can't make that change.
• 16:07 Because the righteous men and women of God are not standing
• 16:10 up, proclaiming the truth against that.
• 16:13 You think your numbers are too small?
• 16:14 Josiah was one man.
• 16:16 He may have been king, but he was a young man.
• 16:18 What would it have been like at 20 years old when he finally got
• 16:21 all of the rights of his kingship to stand against all
• 16:24 these old men and say, "Make this change.
• 16:27 This is what we're gonna do."
• 16:28 That's what he did.
• 16:31 I wanna ask you this question: who do you think God is more
• 16:35 proud of?
• 16:36 The believer who sits there in his complete, blatant sin, who's
• 16:40 chosen to live on that far side, or the believer who hasn't
• 16:45 picked a side, who lives in complacency, who sits there not
• 16:49 choosing and sayin', "Yeah, well, you know, it's not up
• 16:52 to me."
• 16:54 I can tell you who he's proud of: neither.
• 16:55 But I can tell you who he wants to spew out of his mouth.
• 16:58 It's the complacent one.
• 17:00 We have for too long now, as a nation, as a people group, and
• 17:06 as an individual, taken our hands off and decided that if we
• 17:09 duck our heads down and if we stay quiet long enough, it'll
• 17:13 pass on and we can just exist, or as the bumper stickers
• 17:17 say, coexist.
• 17:19 But with God, there is no coexistence with sin.
• 17:23 There is no sitting here with your arm around Baal and your
• 17:26 arm around, you know, Asherah poles and everything else.
• 17:30 But that's what's happened today.
• 17:32 So what do we need to do?
• 17:33 Today is the call to change.
• 17:35 It's not too late.
• 17:36 All you have to do is abandon the pride, as Josiah did.
• 17:39 He humbled himself before the Father.
• 17:41 He said, "I didn't know."
• 17:44 We don't even get that excuse. We do know.
• 17:46 So here's how it goes: "Father, I know.
• 17:50 I know I've sinned, and I repent.
• 17:53 Wash me clean.
• 17:55 Let your Holy Spirit speak through me the truth that you
• 17:59 would have me speak."
• 18:01 And we stand strong in his forgiveness and his repentance,
• 18:04 realizing that a standing proclamation for truth is not
• 18:07 the admittance that you're perfect.
• 18:09 That's a tool of the enemy.
• 18:11 You can't speak the truth.
• 18:12 Somebody's gonna exploit what you're not good at in life.
• 18:14 It's not about you.
• 18:15 It was about Yeshua's perfect life.
• 18:18 And it's his--it's--his life is the reason you can stand
• 18:21 boldly and proclaim that message.
• 18:23 Caleb: Amen.
• 18:25 ♪ Sh'ma, Israel: ♪
• 18:28 ♪ Adonai Eloheinu, ♪
• 18:32 ♪ Adonai Ehad. ♪
• 18:35 Caleb: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
• 18:39 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
• 18:42 all your soul, with all your strength."
• 18:46 Caleb: In the past few years, Israel Hanna, Wisdom That Heals
• 18:50 Ministries, has become a close friend of ours.
• 18:52 He is an amazing evangelist of God.
• 18:55 He goes to Israel and preaches the gospel.
• 18:57 He's the guy who you want beside you in any bad situation 'cause
• 19:00 you know his prayers are heard from God.
• 19:02 Joshua: They are, and if you've seen this man,
• 19:04 you will never forget this man.
• 19:05 He leaves an impact everywhere he goes visually but
• 19:07 also spiritually.
• 19:08 He has so much to say about Josiah and the last reformation,
• 19:12 and--I don't wanna spoil it--but the impact
• 19:14 today on our lives.
• 19:15 Let's check it out.
• 19:18 Israel Hanna: We are in a time frame that we need to decide--
• 19:21 each one of us individually-- are we going to give ourselves
• 19:25 fully to God or are we going to go our own way and do our
• 19:29 own thing?
• 19:30 And it's very important.
• 19:32 Just, you know, talkin' about Josiah is the--basically, the
• 19:35 restoration of the temple.
• 19:37 And each one of us, as intense as times are right now, in order
• 19:42 to really fully follow God, there's parts of us that need to
• 19:47 actually be restored, and that's what Josiah did.
• 19:51 As a young king who came into his position of authority, he
• 19:57 actually restored the temple in a way that brought, you know,
• 20:02 God back to Israel, back to the temple, restored the temple.
• 20:06 Josiah found the Book of the Law, and as he cleansed the
• 20:10 temple, he read that book.
• 20:13 Now, I don't know if you've talked about this, but a lot of
• 20:15 people believe that book that was lost, the lost book that
• 20:19 Josiah read, was the book of Deuteronomy.
• 20:24 And Deuteronomy is the--it's the perfect message for the day.
• 20:28 And that is, "I have called heaven and earth to witness
• 20:32 against you today.
• 20:33 I place before you life and death, blessings or cursings;
• 20:38 therefore, choose life so that you and your children
• 20:41 shall live.
• 20:43 Love God, love Him obediently, and firmly embrace Him as your
• 20:49 Father," basically.
• 20:51 You know, that's what's happening in this world today.
• 20:55 That very message I have set before you
• 20:57 this day, we have the right to choose either life or death,
• 21:00 blessings or cursings.
• 21:02 And we need to do that because not only then will our temple be
• 21:07 restored, but we will have the-- we'll be in sync with our
• 21:12 heavenly Father who is--who lives within us.
• 21:15 We become, then, the temple of God.
• 21:18 We.
• 21:19 This is 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 16.
• 21:23 "Do not you realize that all of you together are the temple of
• 21:28 God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?"
• 21:32 We can go down a little bit to-- and then we go to John chapter
• 21:37 17, verse 20 and 21.
• 21:40 "I pray that all may be one: as You, Father, are in Me and I in
• 21:46 You, that You also may be one in Us, that the world may believe
• 21:52 that You sent Us."
• 21:54 You know, a lot of people argue against the Trinity.
• 21:56 "God is one."
• 21:58 God is one, that's a fact.
• 21:59 But there is a Trinity out there that exists.
• 22:02 The Father glorifies the Son, the Son glorifies and sends the
• 22:05 Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Son, and the Son
• 22:08 glorifies the Father.
• 22:10 And when they work together like that, the three become one,
• 22:15 because it says, "Let them be one: as You and I are
• 22:19 one, Father."
• 22:20 Jesus Christ makes this statement: "I speak a great
• 22:24 mystery unto you: when the two become one."
• 22:27 When the two are joined, they become one.
• 22:30 A man and a wife, two separate individuals, become one.
• 22:34 That's a great mystery.
• 22:36 So now if two can become one and it's a great mystery, why
• 22:42 couldn't three?
• 22:43 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• 22:45 And then you add to that what he says here, now listen: "I pray
• 22:50 that they all may be one."
• 22:54 Now we're expanding the number a little bit.
• 22:56 "As you and I are one, Father, because you are in me, and I in
• 23:00 you, that they also may be one with us."
• 23:04 So that's gettin' pretty big.
• 23:06 The Creator of the universe lives in us.
• 23:11 How can we fear anything?
• 23:13 I want my temple to be cleansed and righteous, not in my own
• 23:17 righteousness, but I wanna--the temple needs also be holy.
• 23:21 People forget that aspect of it.
• 23:24 Because if it's not, you know, there's a time and place, as we
• 23:28 know, that God would withdraw himself.
• 23:31 Our sins separate us from God, right?
• 23:35 My friends, if you're listening today, God has rescued you.
• 23:39 He has changed your life.
• 23:41 He lives within you.
• 23:42 You have a lot to share with other people.
• 23:45 Open your mouth, and out of that will flow the good things
• 23:49 of God.
• 23:50 Tell them how God has rescued you and how much he means to
• 23:53 you, and be a blessing like Joshua and Caleb are.
• 23:59 Kirsten: You both began your teaching on this program on
• 24:04 the Temple Mount.
• 24:05 David: We've never been up there.
• 24:07 Joshua: You must be referencing somebody that looks similar
• 24:09 but quite different than us.
• 24:10 Caleb: You know, it may be our last time up there.
• 24:12 Kirsten: We won't advertise that.
• 24:13 Joshua: It's important to give the message at the place where
• 24:16 things are gonna happen.
• 24:17 That's what God told us to do, and so it was a God moment.
• 24:20 Kirsten: So we should keep it kind of "shh" right now?
• 24:22 Joshua: I think it's on the internet.
• 24:23 At this point, it's too late.
• 24:25 Caleb: Yeah, but we had several shows--
• 24:26 we were filming out of sequence.
• 24:28 Even "Roadmap" we shot up there at the same time, but God helped
• 24:31 us get everything that we needed.
• 24:33 But back to the story of Josiah.
• 24:35 I love in 2 Kings 22:19, it says, "Because your heart was
• 24:40 responsive," means tender, "and you humbled yourself
• 24:43 before God."
• 24:45 That [speaking in Hebrew].
• 24:48 Rock is like, "I surrender."
• 24:50 He was responsible.
• 24:52 He's like, "I give up, God.
• 24:53 We messed up bad," you know?
• 24:55 "We're," you know, "we're guilty."
• 24:58 He read--he heard that Book of the Law, and he thought, "We've
• 25:01 done everything that said not to do here, and judgment
• 25:04 is coming."
• 25:06 But instead of, you know, getting stubborn or prideful,
• 25:08 he said, "I give up, God.
• 25:09 We're wrong. Spare us."
• 25:11 And that's why God moved through him.
• 25:13 Kirsten: And it is vitally important that he found
• 25:15 the Torah.
• 25:16 That, if people don't know, first
• 25:17 five books of the Bible.
• 25:19 Joshua: Exactly, because they didn't have that at all.
• 25:21 We take the Bible for granted a lot.
• 25:23 How many of us have a Bible, okay?
• 25:25 Most people do. How many of us know where it is?
• 25:28 Well, only if pastor is gonna ask for it.
• 25:30 And at that point, how many of it--have used it as some kind
• 25:33 of a coaster by accident, and they go, "I'm so sorry.
• 25:34 Don't send me--" you know, "cast me out."
• 25:37 The problem is that there are people around this world, and
• 25:39 have been for generations, who don't have the
• 25:41 Bible, who it has outlawed.
• 25:43 They didn't even have--know where it was, right?
• 25:45 But people are persecuted across the world for having it or
• 25:47 wanting and are relegated
• 25:50 to their memory or things like that.
• 25:51 Today, if we talk about persecution, it's 'cause we
• 25:53 made, you know, Bob the organist mad, and he's not gonna play our
• 25:55 special, and we don't get to do that, you know?
• 25:57 We don't wanna do that.
• 25:59 It is so vitally important that we don't take God's Word for
• 26:02 granted, that we hide it in our heart, that we memorize it, that
• 26:05 we meditate on it day and night so that in those times where
• 26:09 persecution does come, we can stand on that truth
• 26:12 and that rock and we know.
• 26:13 Caleb: Amen.
• 26:14 Kirsten: Glad that Josiah found that, 'cause it
• 26:16 changed everything, I think.
• 26:17 David: Yes. We'll be right back.
• 26:20 Joshua: You know when a really cool movie comes out and they
• 26:22 make a novelization of it which goes into way more depth than
• 26:24 the movie's times allotted, but then the book ends up sucking?
• 26:27 Well, this is not that scenario.
• 26:28 This week, we're offering the book "Josiah and the Last
• 26:31 Reformation," written by my little brother.
• 26:33 Caleb plays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
• 26:36 givin' behind-the-scenes details of how we filmed our series at
• 26:39 the onslaught of the war with Hamas!
• 26:41 Learn more about idol smashing and "Josiah and the
• 26:44 Last Reformation."
• 26:45 Like I'd even read.
• 26:46 Caleb: Josh, we're still recording!
• 26:48 Joshua: Uh-oh.
• 26:51 David: The brothers are getting ready to head back to Israel
• 26:53 very soon to film a new series.
• 26:55 First of all, pray for them as they go, but also thank you for
• 26:59 allowing them through your finances
• 27:01 to help them get back to Israel.
• 27:02 They couldn't do it--we couldn't do any of this without
• 27:05 your financial support.
• 27:06 We just wanna say thank you for that.
• 27:07 Kirsten: If you've noticed today, all the footage was
• 27:10 filmed in Jerusalem, in Israel.
• 27:13 We spend four days in Jerusalem every tour.
• 27:17 We would love for you to go with us and see the city yourself.
• 27:21 David: What's comin' up next, guys?
• 27:23 Joshua: Next week is a big deal, right?
• 27:24 Josiah finally has the Torah.
• 27:26 So if you thought he was serious before, he's got the manual.
• 27:29 He knows exactly what they've been doin' wrong, and he's gonna
• 27:31 change everything.
• 27:33 Caleb: It's awesome. David: Time to go.
• 27:34 Caleb: That's right, and as we go, guys,
• 27:36 Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:38 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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