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The things that are happening in Israel

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now --

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in terms of the thorny

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Palestinian Jewish question

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-- those things are predicted

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. It's all about learning to

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understand what God intends

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to do with the human race , and I've

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said it before and I'll

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say it again: He

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intends to bless the entire human race . He

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"preached the gospel to Abraham is

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how the apostle Paul put it . And

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what was the gospel ? That in

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Abraham and his children , all

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the families of the earth will be

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blessed . They will be blessed

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. They will learn to live

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. They will learn to be in harmony with each

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other . They will learn to have life . Those

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are the things that God is making happen . So

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let's look at some other verses

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. Welcome to . It Is Near . This is episode

0:54

7 . And I've done now

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three episodes 7 . This is

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the third one . I hope it's the charm . You'd

1:02

think a podcast about Bible prophecy

1:05

would be all over the events of

1:07

October 7th , and I should have been , but

1:09

I've been trying to get it right . I've

1:11

been trying to study prophecy and be

1:13

sure that I understand what the Bible

1:15

prophecies say . I don't

1:17

want to do a knee jerk reaction . You

1:20

know from my previous podcast

1:22

that I am a supporter

1:24

of and lover of Israel , and

1:28

so my bias

1:30

is deep- seated and

1:33

any Bible

1:36

- believing Christian is likely to

1:38

agree with me . Any non-Christian

1:42

member of the audience is likely

1:44

not to assume that I'm on the right

1:46

track , and so

1:49

I'm trying

1:51

to present balanced evidence

1:54

based on not only the Bible but also

1:57

history and logic , and

1:59

, frankly , I've

2:01

been struggling

2:03

with how to handle

2:05

it and I've been busy with the

2:07

format change that we've

2:09

been working on , getting it set up

2:11

as a video podcast and trying

2:14

to get it so that I can make the

2:16

episodes be basically self-edited

2:19

as we go , and so

2:21

, for all of that , it's here . It's

2:23

been over four months and I'm only now

2:25

almost ready to release

2:28

episode 7 . And

2:30

I have good material from the earlier

2:32

attempts at episode 7 to share with you

2:34

. Some is on audio only , some is audio

2:37

and video . I will be sharing that

2:39

too , and there'll be episodes that

2:41

follow along on this topic , but

2:45

this one I'm trying

2:47

to show a balanced view

2:49

, and it happens to come on a day when there

2:54

was another major nightmare

2:56

, and that was the very unfortunate

2:59

loss of life that occurred in Gaza , when

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a bunch of people were shot

3:03

as they crowded around

3:05

an aid convoy to

3:07

try to get food . We've discovered

3:10

over the last four months that Hamas

3:12

is excellent at selling

3:15

a false narrative to the

3:17

news media consumers around

3:19

the world , and

3:21

we need to wait and see just a little bit

3:23

longer to let an investigation

3:25

unfold as to what exactly happened . It's

3:28

very possible that the people

3:30

that were shot were not actually shot by the

3:32

IDF . They were shot

3:34

by Hamas gunmen

3:37

. We don't know . We

3:39

know that Hamas gunmen have routinely

3:41

been shooting Palestinian citizens

3:43

when they

3:45

have attempted to leave the area

3:47

where battles are occurring . There's

3:51

concrete evidence of that

3:53

and it's a very concrete

3:56

pattern that the

3:59

soldiers and

4:02

leaders of Hamas hide

4:05

behind civilians in hospitals

4:07

, in schools , in

4:10

the

4:12

neighborhoods --

4:14

and use those people so-called

4:17

"innocent civilians as human shields

4:19

. And then there's another aspect

4:21

of this that the Jewish soldiers

4:23

have been more and more

4:25

stridently talking about and

4:28

doing their own kind of underground

4:30

videos about , and that is that

4:32

they don't consider any of the Gaza

4:34

people to be quote

4:36

innocent civilians . Time

4:39

and again they've been trapped . They've

4:41

seen their comrades killed

4:43

and wounded because they

4:46

trusted civilians not

4:49

to be in

4:51

league with the soldiers

4:54

of Hamas . The soldiers

4:56

of Hamas are not like normal soldiers . They don't

4:58

wear uniforms . They don't act

5:02

like combatants

5:05

. It's difficult to be a

5:07

soldier who cares about

5:09

human life and who cares about innocence

5:12

and who cares about being

5:16

humane . It's very difficult

5:18

for these Israeli

5:21

soldiers to act in a way that their ethics

5:23

tell them they should and

5:26

, at the same time , they're watching hundreds

5:29

of their own men and women

5:31

be killed , and they're watching

5:33

women and children who

5:35

are working

5:38

in cahoots with Hamas soldiers to

5:41

call down sniper

5:43

shots , to hide guns in

5:46

their robes --

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and ammo -- and get them to the soldiers

5:51

who are pinned down in

5:53

a house or in a tunnel nearby

5:55

. Those are things that the

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Israeli soldiers have had trouble with , and so

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there's a whole underground of

6:02

social media presentations

6:05

making the point that they

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can't trust anyone , and

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if they're a Palestinian in

6:13

Gaza , the soldiers of

6:15

the IDF don't see

6:17

themselves as safe around

6:19

them at all , and

6:22

that makes it even more complicated

6:24

and more difficult . So , anyway , if you want

6:28

to have

6:31

a balanced look

6:33

at what is really happening over there

6:35

, I encourage you to check

6:39

your sources and don't just assume

6:41

that just because somebody is

6:44

a quote journalist

6:46

working for the BBC that

6:48

they are reliable as telling

6:51

the truth . Israel has found tunnels

6:54

, and loaded

6:56

with weapons . They found weapons inside

6:59

baby bassinettes . They found

7:01

tunnels under hospitals . They found

7:03

the entire server farm

7:06

, the entire server operation of

7:08

the Hamas computer network

7:10

, under one of the biggest

7:12

hospitals in Gaza . The

7:14

hospitals were built as

7:16

places where

7:19

soldiers could safely hide . Hamas

7:21

soldiers could safely hide and attack from

7:24

if they were to ever

7:26

have a street war , which is what they have

7:28

been planning for for the last several years . My

7:30

belief is that the

7:33

situation that exists there today

7:35

is something that has been predicted

7:38

and understood from the ancient times

7:40

in the Bible , and the

7:43

Bible conveys the notion that

7:45

God himself , that there is a God

7:47

and that he has begun

7:50

a process of blessing the entire

7:52

world through

7:54

one family , and that family

7:56

is the family , the children of Abraham , and

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he has only guided

8:01

and taught that one family up

8:03

till now . And

8:05

what is really amazing is

8:07

that the people who are

8:09

the worst enemies of Israel

8:11

and of that family

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, that family that was called

8:16

by God to become a blessing

8:18

of all the families of the earth , that

8:21

that family which

8:25

was taught through

8:28

some very difficult experiences of their

8:30

own by God , that

8:33

family is learning

8:35

and is prepared to be a blessing

8:38

to everyone , including Palestinians

8:40

. And I know that people

8:42

who don't believe the Bible find

8:45

such a notion laughable . But

8:47

the

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thesis of the scriptures of the

8:52

Bible , the

8:54

governing operation , the governing

8:56

idea behind the Bible , is that

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there is a God . He made the world

9:00

, he

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entered the human history

9:05

through one family . His goal

9:07

is to restore the entire human

9:09

race to fellowship and

9:11

peace with each other and fellowship with

9:14

him . And this

9:17

one family , the Jewish

9:19

people , the children of Israel

9:21

, that family is designed

9:23

, is intended to be a blessing

9:25

to everyone else . When

9:29

we look at the Bible , what we're going to see is

9:31

that the strongest enemies of the Jewish

9:33

people are actually their nearest

9:36

kin and their nearest relatives . So

9:38

let's look at a psalm

9:41

first of all . This is Psalm 83

9:43

. Here's what it says

9:45

oh God , do

9:48

not keep silence , do

9:50

not hold your peace or be still

9:53

. For behold , your

9:55

enemies make an uproar , those

9:57

who hate you have raised their heads . They

10:00

lay crafty plans against your people

10:02

. They consult together against

10:04

your treasured ones . Who are

10:06

those treasured ones ? Those

10:09

are the children of Abraham . They

10:11

say come , let us wipe

10:14

them out as a nation . Let

10:17

the name of Israel be remembered no

10:19

more , for they

10:21

conspire with one accord Against

10:24

you . They make a covenant , and

10:27

then it starts listing the

10:29

combatants in this covenant

10:32

the

10:35

tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites

10:37

. That's the first group . I'll come back

10:39

and discuss who each of these are Moab

10:42

and the Hagarites , ghebal

10:45

and Ammon and Amalek . Philistia

10:49

, with an inhabitants of Tyre , asher

10:53

also has joined them . They

10:56

are the strong arm of the children of Lot

10:58

, okay

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so . And it also mentions

11:02

Midian . Okay , so

11:04

what

11:07

are these groups of people and

11:10

what is the time period referred

11:14

to here as when these folks are dead

11:18

set against the Jews ? Okay

11:21

, all right , the tents

11:23

of Edom . The

11:25

story of Jacob is

11:27

familiar to many of us , no

11:30

matter what our views of religion

11:32

. Now , most of us have gone through some sort

11:34

of Sunday school

11:36

experience . And there

11:38

was Abraham , and then he had a son , isaac

11:41

, and then he had a son , jacob

11:44

, and at the

11:46

same time , a moment before Jacob

11:48

was born , his twin brother , esau

11:51

, was born . Okay , so Edom

11:53

is the biblical term , the Hebrew term

11:56

, for the children of Esau

11:58

. That would be the twin brother

12:00

of Jacob and the person

12:02

who was . He was actually a few minutes older , but

12:05

there's an amazing and

12:07

interesting Bible story about how Jacob

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convinced his father

12:12

that he was Esau

12:14

, the older brother , and then Isaac

12:17

gave the blessing , the privilege

12:20

of being part of this Abrahamic promise

12:22

to bless the world . Through

12:24

a subterfuge , israel

12:27

got that promise himself . It's

12:31

a very amazing

12:33

and almost comical

12:35

story of

12:38

how somebody

12:40

wanted to be a blessing so much he was willing to cheat

12:43

to get it . And

12:45

his mom was in on the subterfuge

12:48

Rebecca , the mother

12:50

of Jacob and Esau . So the

12:52

tents of Edom is referring

12:54

to the twin brother of Jacob

12:56

. In future episodes we'll talk

12:59

about this feud , this family feud

13:01

between , like the Hatfields and McCoys

13:03

, between the children of Jacob

13:05

and the children of Esau . But

13:07

the thing to understand is that the people

13:10

who were the children of Israel , of

13:12

Jacob , had a completely

13:14

different set of experiences . They became

13:16

the people of a book taught

13:19

by a law giver , moses

13:21

, taught by 400

13:24

years of slavery and 40

13:26

years of wandering and a wilderness . They

13:29

were taught by a tabernacle and priesthood

13:31

arrangement that gave

13:33

them methodologies by which they could

13:35

find themselves at peace

13:37

with God and also how they could learn

13:40

to identify . There's actually 17

13:42

different words , I believe , in Hebrew

13:45

for sin , all different shades

13:47

of meaning of sin . When

13:50

Amos the prophet talked to

13:52

the Jewish people in his

13:55

day , much later he delivered

13:57

a message from God to the Jewish people

13:59

which said you only have

14:02

I known of all the families

14:04

of the earth . They

14:06

were the only nation that God made

14:09

a covenant with . That God

14:11

established a theocracy , with that

14:13

God became the leader of their

14:15

nation . And I recognize I

14:18

understand why people who

14:21

are skeptical about the Bible would say well

14:23

, yeah , that's

14:25

what their book tells them . But

14:28

we're going

14:30

to be seeing , as these next

14:32

few episodes unfold , that the evidence

14:34

in history is actually

14:37

quite supportive of the claims

14:39

that the Bible makes in this regard . But

14:41

at any rate , when Amos was

14:43

speaking to the Jewish people

14:45

, he said God says

14:47

you

14:50

only have I known of all the families of the

14:52

earth . And then he goes

14:54

on to say Therefore

14:56

, I will punish you for your iniquities

14:59

. In other words , if

15:01

God is their father , they

15:04

are the only child of the human race

15:06

that has a father who is present

15:08

and who teaches them and disciplines them

15:11

. And the discipline that

15:13

the Jewish people have received has

15:15

been at times ferocious , at

15:18

times horrendous . And

15:20

yet when we look around the world

15:22

today , we see primophatia

15:25

, evidence that the Jewish people

15:27

are a blessing to

15:30

the world in terms of

15:32

the knowledge

15:35

, the creativity

15:37

, the ethical

15:40

nature . Jewish

15:42

people are the largest philanthropists in the

15:44

world . They are the

15:46

largest Nobel Prize winners , they

15:49

are inventors , mathematicians

15:51

, scientists , and lately

15:53

they've also been quite good at running

15:55

armies , fighting , fighting

15:57

, because they've had to do a lot of fighting

15:59

in the last 75 years for

16:01

their own survival . So

16:04

you've

16:06

heard my argument . I hope you'll

16:08

stick with me as I present other

16:11

evidence to support and buttress the

16:13

claims that I'm making . Let's

16:16

go back to the Psalm for

16:18

a moment . Okay

16:20

, the tents of Edom and

16:22

the Ishmaelites . Who are the Ishmaelites

16:24

? Well , ishmael was the first son of Abraham

16:26

, the one who was born to him

16:29

through his wife's servant

16:31

, hagar , who was an Egyptian

16:33

. So Ishmael had 12

16:36

sons . I believe Esau

16:40

also had 12 sons . There were a bunch of Ishmaelites

16:43

, and all of the Arabian

16:45

nations traced their lineage

16:47

to Ishmael , moab

16:49

. And then , skipping

16:51

down , a couple of words , ammon . Moab

16:54

and Ammon were two brothers and

16:56

they were both the children of Lot

16:59

, which was Abraham's nephew

17:01

. Lot

17:03

was the relative

17:05

of Abraham , who settled and lived in

17:08

the town of Sodom for a while

17:10

, which was

17:12

destroyed by a meteor

17:14

that came in , and I did a podcast

17:17

about that in one of my earlier episodes

17:19

. But Moab

17:21

and Ammon were two brothers , sons

17:24

of incest , who

17:27

founded nations

17:29

, entire nations that

17:31

have always been sworn enemies

17:34

of Israel , and

17:36

there's a story in the Book of Numbers

17:38

about the Moabites wanting

17:41

to have a prophet curse

17:43

Israel , a prophet named Balaam

17:45

, and that's an interesting story

17:47

in the Book of Numbers . Ammon

17:50

became

17:52

the nation of the Ammonites

17:54

, who also

17:56

fought Israel . When Israel

17:58

came towards the promised land

18:01

from their wandering in the wilderness

18:03

, they asked the Ammonites

18:05

if they could just pass through , because

18:07

God told them that the Ammonites were

18:11

promised land of their own . And

18:14

the Israelites

18:16

said we don't want any

18:18

of your land , we just like to bring our people

18:20

through your land because your land

18:22

is in the way . The Ammonites said no way

18:24

, so they ended up having a war against each other

18:27

. Today , the descendants of Ammon

18:29

are many of the people who live in the nation

18:31

of Jordan , and the capital of Jordan

18:33

is Ammon , which comes from the same word

18:35

, ammon , amalek . Amalek

18:39

was a son of Esau , jacob's

18:42

twin brother . The story

18:44

goes that Esau went out and married a woman contrary

18:47

to his parents' wishes . Jacob

18:50

went to the Kindred

18:52

lands , the lands where Abraham

18:54

had come from , to find a wife , and

18:57

it wasn't until Esau

18:59

got around to his third wife that he

19:01

did the same . Amalek

19:04

was the sworn enemy of

19:07

the Jewish people , his

19:09

nation , the Amalekites in biblical history

19:11

and prophecy has

19:14

come down to prophetic

19:16

writings as the land of Gog

19:18

, the Agagites

19:20

, and it was

19:22

the nation that Saul fought against , that

19:24

David fought against . Again

19:27

and again , the Israeli

19:29

people have come up against the

19:31

Amalek tribes and in five battles

19:34

that go all the way back to Abraham's

19:36

day and go forward all the way till the end of

19:38

the millennium described in the book of Revelation

19:41

. In every case of these five

19:43

battles , amalek

19:46

loses . They

19:48

hate Israel and they always lose

19:50

to Israel , and

19:52

that's kind of what's happening right now

19:54

. It appears Hamas is losing

19:57

. They might be winning the public

19:59

relations battle and that's prophesied as

20:01

well but they are losing

20:03

the actual struggle

20:05

on the battlefield . Philistia

20:08

was a nation that had

20:10

nothing against Israel other

20:13

than the fact that they wanted to

20:15

have some land to grow corn . They

20:17

came from Crete and they settled

20:19

in the area that

20:21

Abraham was coming down into when

20:24

God sent him down , according to the

20:26

Genesis account . And Philistia

20:28

then has had tribes and

20:31

cities . They had five cities along

20:34

the coast of the Mediterranean Sea , and

20:36

they have been a thorn in Israel's side

20:39

for millennia . The

20:41

Bible records seven major

20:43

battles between Israel and the Philistines

20:45

, and they won most of those , but the

20:47

Philistines kept bouncing back , and

20:50

it's a matter of historical record that it was

20:52

the Assyrian Empire and Babylonian

20:54

empires which subdued

20:56

the Philistines and of course they also

20:59

had their way with

21:01

Israel . The inhabitants of Tyre

21:03

refer to a group that

21:06

were farther north in Israel , just below

21:08

Lebanon and up alongside

21:10

Lebanon . That's where Tyre was . It was a maritime

21:13

peninsula city , very

21:16

wealthy traders . They had

21:18

ships that covered the entire Mediterranean

21:20

and perhaps beyond . Asher

21:23

refers to the Assyrian Empire , which

21:26

is farther north , on the other side of the

21:28

Euphrates River , and it says

21:30

in this prophecy that Asher

21:32

joined them . So they were told

21:34

that Syria and some

21:37

of the tribes north of

21:39

Syria were involved in the rivalry

21:42

, this confederation against Israel

21:44

at the period of time that this psalm

21:46

is talking about . And it says

21:48

that Asher was the

21:50

strong arm of the children of Lot . So that shows

21:52

that there was a Moabite-Amenite

21:55

axis along with the

21:57

Assyrians . And then Midian

21:59

is mentioned . Midian was

22:01

another son of

22:03

Abraham through Quturah

22:05

. He was , I think

22:07

, the second son of

22:09

Abraham

22:12

through Quturah , who was the wife

22:14

that Abraham married after

22:16

Sarah died . Let's

22:18

jump now to another prophecy

22:20

. I would say that this prophecy that we've

22:22

just been reading about is

22:24

a description of the

22:27

Confederation the Arab

22:29

League , we might say against

22:32

Israel for most of the 20th

22:34

century , up until very recently

22:37

. This confederation

22:39

has been broken and it no longer stands

22:41

. There still are Palestinians

22:44

who are working against Israel

22:46

, but a

22:48

number of the Arab tribes and

22:51

nations have made peace with Israel

22:53

in the last few years . This

22:55

has been called the Abraham Accords , and

22:58

some of the people in this group , the

23:00

you know the Ishmaelites , the Hagarites

23:03

I didn't mention them . They are the , the

23:06

children . Hagar had several

23:08

children besides Ishmael

23:10

, and so Hagarites

23:13

are also kind of Egyptian

23:15

and Arab you might say Bedouin

23:17

tribes , and so some of these tribes

23:19

would be the Yemenites

23:22

, the Saudi Arabians

23:24

and so forth , all of

23:26

those what we would call classic

23:28

Arab tribes . They

23:30

were involved in the Arab League and

23:32

they were involved in the big wars that

23:34

Israel fought since 1948

23:36

. They all said we are coming

23:38

against you as a nation , we're gonna drive

23:40

you off the face of the earth

23:42

. The Hagarites , which came from Egypt

23:45

that fits with Gamal Abdel

23:47

Nasser who , when I was a boy

23:49

, I saw on TV say we're gonna drive

23:51

you into the sea . Those are the people

23:54

who were involved in that original plot . But

23:56

that confederation is no more , and

23:58

that's not what we're seeing here right now . Most

24:01

of the fighters against Israel now

24:03

are not the Arabs , they're not

24:05

the Ishmaelites , the Hagarites , they're

24:08

not even the Ammonites , which is Jordan . And

24:10

Syria is currently not

24:12

that active . They are avoiding

24:15

as much as they can any direct conflict

24:17

with Israel . So who are

24:19

they now ? To get an insight into that

24:21

, let's turn to Ezekiel , the 38th

24:24

chapter , and we're not gonna see

24:26

the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 , but we're gonna get

24:28

some insights into that

24:30

conflict . Okay

24:33

, so here's Ezekiel , 38th

24:35

chapter . The

24:38

word of the Lord came to me . Son of man

24:41

, set your face toward Gog

24:43

of the land of Magog

24:45

. Okay , I mentioned Gog a few minutes ago

24:47

. Gog is the name

24:50

for the enemies

24:52

of God

24:55

, the enemies of Abraham

24:57

and the enemies of all of Abraham's

24:59

children , especially well

25:01

, the enemies of specific

25:04

Abraham's children . That would be Israel

25:06

, the promised seed , isaac

25:08

, abraham , isaac , jacob

25:10

those are the promised seed in there and

25:12

then the nation that came from Jacob

25:14

. Gog is their sworn enemy

25:16

. Remember the story of Esther

25:19

? You had Haman , the Agagite

25:22

. Agag is the name

25:24

of their king and

25:26

Gog is from the same root

25:29

, and the land of Magog is

25:31

just another way of saying the same thing . We

25:33

won't get into some of the details of this because they're

25:35

not in the scope of what we're looking at

25:37

today , but I

25:39

want to roll down and notice who comes

25:42

against Israel in

25:44

the final conflict , which is not

25:46

the one we're having today . But

25:48

they are Persia , which is Iran

25:51

, kush , which

25:53

is Northern Africa , ethiopia

25:55

and Somalia , probably

25:57

, and Put are

26:00

with them . Put refers

26:02

to Yemen , gomer

26:05

and all his hordes and Beth Togarmah

26:07

from the uttermost parts of the north , that's

26:10

Turkey , the

26:12

current battle that's happening

26:14

. Hamas would be a part

26:16

of Gog . They are in line

26:18

with and working with Gog

26:20

, but they aren't the whole

26:23

thing . And the thing that

26:25

we see here is that Persia

26:27

, iran is in on this , yemen

26:29

is in on this , and so

26:31

those guys are helping Hamas

26:34

by running interference against

26:37

, giving Israel a two-front

26:39

war to worry about , even a three-front war

26:42

to worry about , and

26:45

so this is a foretaste

26:49

of some of the future battles that we're going

26:51

to see in the not-too-far-distant

26:53

future between

26:55

many nations and Israel

26:58

. But

27:01

notice who's not in this . Most

27:03

of the people who were in that last

27:07

prophecy

27:09

, the one in Psalms 83 , most

27:12

of those folks are not there . The Ishmaelites

27:15

, the Ammonites , moab

27:18

, those people are not in this picture

27:21

. So the

27:23

amazing thing that the Bible tells is that

27:25

Israel will

27:27

actually be at peace with almost all

27:29

of the Arabs when their

27:32

final battle happens . But

27:35

Iran is going to be involved

27:38

and is going to be

27:40

an active agent in trying

27:43

to wipe

27:45

out Israel in the final

27:48

struggles . So just

27:50

be aware that Iran

27:52

and the Yemenites

27:55

are going to be in

27:57

the future in the final

27:59

battles that Israel

28:01

will be facing . In the Ezekiel

28:05

, the 38th and 39th chapters , there's

28:07

actually four prophecies

28:09

at least that

28:11

identify this final

28:13

battle , and they are in the book of Joel

28:15

. They are in the book of Ezekiel and

28:18

several other places

28:20

, and I will be going through those in future

28:22

episodes , but I don't want to get

28:25

involved in that too much right now . What I

28:27

want to focus on right now is that the

28:29

things that are happening in Israel

28:31

now are in

28:34

terms of the thorny Palestinian

28:37

Jewish question . Those things

28:39

are predicted . They

28:42

are actually works of God , they are actually acts

28:44

of God . If the Bible , if

28:46

you can just I mean you just read it in the Bible . According

28:49

to the Bible , these things are actually

28:51

things that God has prearranged

28:53

. He's like a , he's

28:56

like a director of a play

28:58

and he is providing

29:00

an invisible hand that moves characters

29:02

onto the stage and off the stage to

29:05

make this play dramatize

29:10

the issues and the conflicts

29:12

that he

29:15

wants to see the human race struggle

29:17

with , so that they can learn

29:19

some lessons in the process

29:21

. And that's what that's

29:25

what this play that we're watching

29:28

is all about . It's all about

29:30

learning to understand what

29:36

God intends to do with the human race , and

29:39

I've said it before and

29:41

I'll say it again he

29:43

intends to bless the entire human race . He

29:46

preached the gospel to Abraham is

29:48

how the apostle Paul put it . And

29:51

what was the gospel ? That , in

29:53

Abraham and his children , all

29:56

the families of the earth will be

29:58

blessed . They will be blessed

30:00

. They will learn to live

30:02

. They will learn to be in harmony with each

30:04

other . They will learn to have life . Those

30:07

are the things that God is making happen . So

30:10

let's look at some other verses

30:12

. In Zechariah

30:15

, the 12th

30:18

chapter , the third verse , it says on that day

30:20

I will make Jerusalem a heavy

30:23

stone for all the

30:25

peoples . All who lift it will

30:27

surely hurt themselves , and

30:29

all the nations of the earth will gather

30:31

against it . Okay , there

30:35

are several prophecies that say substantially the

30:37

same thing . The idea is

30:39

that if you watch human

30:42

history , you're going to reach a point where

30:44

the Jews are back in

30:46

their homeland , in their promised land . That

30:49

itself is a miracle and is unprecedented

30:52

in human history . But after

30:54

2,000 years of absence , the Jews

30:56

come back and in 1948 they

30:58

become a state and are recognized by

31:00

the majority of the nations of the world , able

31:03

to have their own land

31:05

, their own nation . Then what happens

31:07

is that the world

31:10

is confronted with this horrible diplomatic

31:12

nightmare of a problem . What

31:15

are you going to do about the fact that Christians

31:18

, jews and Muslims all

31:20

think of Jerusalem as

31:22

their sacred place ? It's

31:24

such an intractable problem with

31:27

overtones of well , whose land

31:29

is it and how

31:31

did they get it , and are we

31:33

being treated fairly ? And all this on both

31:36

sides . This issue has

31:38

been an intractable problem

31:40

. Every leader

31:42

of the world who tries to deal

31:44

with this problem fails . The

31:46

closest one to success was Jimmy

31:49

Carter , when he got the Egyptians

31:51

and the Jews to agree

31:53

not to continue

31:56

fighting each other and killing each other . And

31:58

how did he get that

32:00

to happen ? Well , israel was willing

32:02

to give the entire Sinai Peninsula

32:05

back to Egypt , even though they'd found

32:07

oil there . That's

32:09

why the Carter

32:12

was able to look like a great magician

32:14

of Middle East diplomacy

32:17

, because the Jews were willing to

32:19

give back all this land that they had

32:21

conquered twice before

32:23

and had quickly given

32:25

back this third time when they fought

32:28

in 1967

32:30

war , they said wait a minute , we're not going to keep

32:32

winning this land and then give it back . What

32:35

do you think we are ? We're not that stupid

32:37

. But they

32:39

wanted peace so badly with

32:41

Egypt that they gave

32:44

it back . And as a result , that's

32:46

where the Gaza

32:48

problem kind of really had its origin , because up

32:50

till then Gaza had been administered by Egypt

32:53

and Egypt didn't want to handle Gaza anymore

32:55

. It was a nightmare . So they

32:57

gave the Sinai Peninsula

33:00

to Egypt and then they were stuck

33:02

. They were stuck with

33:04

Gaza . Every

33:06

American president has tried

33:09

in one way or another

33:11

to solve this problem and has not succeeded

33:13

. Biden has

33:15

struggled . One of the things that Donald

33:18

Trump did that the Jews greatly

33:20

appreciated was that he transferred

33:23

the American embassy to Jerusalem

33:25

instead of Tel Aviv , and

33:27

that was really appreciated . And

33:30

he also was involved in helping smooth

33:32

the way for the Jews to establish

33:35

trade deals with other Arab

33:37

states , as I mentioned earlier . So

33:39

the Abraham Accords began under

33:42

Trump and have been continued under

33:44

, and even expanded a little

33:46

bit under Biden . But Biden

33:49

is really caught

33:51

between a rock and a hard place , because his

33:54

reelection chances hinge on

33:56

being able to attract

33:59

the young vote , and the young vote in the United States has

34:03

overwhelmingly sided with the Palestinians

34:05

on this issue . That's happening right now

34:07

. So Biden wants

34:10

to help support Israel

34:12

and he's been supporting Israel but

34:15

he doesn't want to go too far

34:17

and appear to be favoring Israel

34:19

at the expense of the Palestinian people

34:21

. So he tries to make this artful

34:23

separation between the

34:26

Hamas and

34:28

the people of Gaza

34:30

, and what the Jewish soldiers

34:32

are finding and the Jewish leaders

34:35

are saying is that , well

34:37

, yeah , we don't

34:39

want to hurt the Palestinian people , the

34:41

Gaza people either , but they

34:44

have a deep , violent , angry

34:46

attitude toward us . And we also are

34:48

frustrated with the United Nations . The

34:51

United Nations is Unwa

34:53

and the Red Cross and all these other

34:55

organizations that are supposed to be helping

34:58

just provide

35:00

humanitarian assistance are actually

35:02

fighting for and with

35:04

Hamas , hiding

35:06

Hamas operatives

35:09

in hospitals , in schools

35:11

and so forth . So it's

35:14

a very complex , mixed up situation

35:16

, and this prophecy in Zechariah is just

35:18

one of several that say

35:21

that that's exactly what will happen

35:23

. You can blame God for

35:26

this human situation

35:28

that we find on the ground , here in Israel

35:30

right now . Let's look at one

35:32

more verse about what

35:34

is happening today , and

35:36

this is in Zechariah , the 12th

35:39

chapter , the sixth verse

35:41

. So we're coming back to Zechariah 12 again

35:43

. It says on that day

35:45

, I will make the clans of Judah

35:47

like a blazing pot

35:49

in the midst of wood

35:51

, like a flaming torch

35:53

among sheaves . They

35:56

shall devour to the right and to

35:58

the left of the surrounding

36:00

peoples , while Jerusalem

36:03

shall again be inhabited

36:06

in its place in Jerusalem

36:08

. Okay , so the

36:11

first thing that this verse tells us is

36:13

that Judah

36:17

is going , that's , the Jewish people , israel

36:19

, as we know them today , are

36:22

going to become very effective in

36:24

their , in their fighting

36:27

the surrounding neighbors

36:29

, the peoples around them

36:32

. It says , and it's talking about the

36:34

Palestinian people . They

36:36

will be like a a

36:38

how's it put it

36:40

? A , a blazing

36:42

pot in the midst of wood . They

36:46

will devour the , the enemies

36:49

that they encounter , and that's what's been

36:51

happening and it . I

36:53

think that they were much more deliberate

36:57

, much more measured

36:59

in past conflicts

37:01

than they are today . Today , they are determined

37:04

to absolutely destroy

37:06

Hamas and its ability to wage

37:09

war . They're systematically

37:12

destroying Hamas's capacity

37:14

to fight , to have , you know

37:16

, soldiers , to have weapons , to

37:18

have ammo , to have tunnels

37:21

. They just are determined

37:23

to devour the peoples

37:25

around them . And

37:27

what's going to happen ? Well

37:29

, it goes . It feeds right into that last scripture

37:32

we just looked at . It's part of the process

37:34

by which Israel is going to lose

37:37

its public support . It's going to lose

37:39

, you know , I just read an essay

37:42

by Thomas Friedman and

37:45

then last couple of days he's

37:47

sympathetic towards Israel and and

37:49

he's he knows that Hamas

37:51

was , was , they were butchers and and

37:53

rapists and they were awful , but he's saying

37:56

that Israel is blowing . He

37:58

considers Israel to be making

38:00

mistakes in in the way

38:02

they comport themselves in

38:04

the , in the view of the public

38:06

opinion of the world . Well , bible

38:09

prophecy predicts

38:11

exactly that . That's exactly what will

38:13

happen . Israel is going to lose

38:15

all her lovers , it says in Jeremiah

38:17

. Israel is going to lose

38:20

all of its support , as as if , as

38:22

if to say they can't

38:24

survive without public opinion . Part

38:28

of the lesson that God , I think , is trying to

38:30

teach the world is

38:32

that he's got a plan

38:34

for the world of mankind and he's got a

38:36

certain amount of land

38:39

that he is devoted to the

38:41

children of Abraham , and

38:43

he's got lands for

38:46

all the rest of the world to live in and

38:48

he is going to reconcile

38:50

all of the Jews with all

38:52

of the Arabs and all of the other enemies

38:55

that they have . He's even going

38:57

to reconcile the children of Ammon

38:59

and the children of of Esau

39:01

, you know , and the

39:03

Moabites . Those are all . All

39:05

of those people are going to be reconciled with

39:08

the Jews in the future , but

39:10

right now he's

39:12

determined to show

39:15

the world that what

39:17

he has predicted and

39:19

what he wants to happen is going to

39:21

happen . He is God and he is in , in

39:24

control of human affairs , and

39:26

the Jewish people are going to find

39:30

themselves in a real pickle

39:32

in future years , to

39:34

the point where the four prophecies

39:37

that I mentioned , that include

39:39

the Ezekiel 38 , 39 prophecy

39:41

all of them are pointing to a time

39:43

when every

39:46

nation of the world is

39:48

going to actively be

39:50

involved or at least

39:52

passively permitting the

39:55

Jewish people to be attacked

39:59

with the intention of

40:01

their of being eliminated . There's going

40:03

to be one last attempt by the human

40:06

governments of the world to

40:09

completely destroy Israel , and

40:12

that's what the final

40:14

conflict of the time

40:16

of trouble in the world conditions will

40:19

be the time

40:21

of Jacob's trouble . That is

40:23

probably only 10

40:25

, 12 years away , but

40:28

right now Israel

40:31

is going , is determined to wipe out Hamas , and

40:34

they're going to lose a whole lot of the support

40:36

that they have around the world now

40:39

, and that is

40:41

part of the fulfillment of prophecy . I

40:44

love the Jewish people , I love Israel

40:46

. I support Israel in

40:48

my small way of you

40:51

know , talking in these podcasts about

40:53

why Israel is a valuable

40:55

part of the human race and

40:58

going to be the blessing

41:00

to the world that God has promised

41:02

. But the

41:05

reality is that Israel is going to

41:07

go through one last horrendous

41:09

difficulty before

41:12

the time of peace and blessing can

41:15

come to the entire human race . According

41:18

to Psalm 44-3 , it

41:21

was not the sword of Israel

41:23

that , in the past or in the future

41:25

, will defeat the enemies of Israel

41:27

, but God's favor upon

41:30

the Jewish nation . They

41:32

will not , in the end , be able to defeat

41:34

their enemies on the battlefield

41:36

, and that's the

41:39

lesson that the Jewish

41:41

people will be taught in the

41:43

final battle that's described

41:45

in Ezekiel 38

41:47

and 39 chapters . Even

41:50

though up to that point

41:52

, israel will be having

41:54

its way with its enemies that

41:56

surround them on the battlefield

41:58

, in the end

42:01

they will lose on the battlefield but

42:04

still be saved as a nation by

42:06

the favor of God , and the

42:08

world will see this and

42:11

recognize that

42:13

Israel is indeed favored

42:17

in a remarkable , indeed

42:19

miraculous , way

42:21

by an invisible

42:23

hand in human history . So

42:26

with that I'm

42:28

going to end episode seven and I have

42:30

some more information that's in a little

42:32

more detail , just to

42:34

share . That's already

42:37

been cut and I'm still editing and

42:39

I will come back with more prophecy insights

42:44

, hopefully , that you will find useful

42:46

as you look to see

42:48

what God is trying to accomplish and

42:50

what the Bible says about

42:52

the future that's we're living

42:54

and watching

42:57

right now . Keep

42:59

your eyes open . Don't believe

43:01

everything you see on the internet or hear on the internet

43:04

, and listen

43:06

to both sides of some of the arguments

43:08

that are being made and you'll be surprised

43:11

. And it's important to

43:13

, I would say , give more

43:15

weight . If you're inclined not to give

43:17

weight to the Israeli point

43:20

of view , give it some more weight and give

43:22

it some more time to try to understand , because one

43:25

of the facts of history is that

43:27

those who support and bless Israel will

43:30

be blessed . Everybody who blesses

43:32

Israel , blesses Abraham , will

43:35

be blessed . So

43:37

I wish you the best in that regard and thank you

43:39

for listening to . It Is

43:42

Near . The time is coming

43:44

when all

43:46

of the promises that God has made for the human

43:48

race are going to be fulfilled and it is

43:51

going to be a very

43:53

happy time , thanks .